Traditional beef production is notorious for its substantial environmental footprint, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and extensive land and water use. Photo: AFP / FETHI BELAID ...

Lab-grown meat is gaining traction. But before we consume it, we need to believe in it – and that's where design comes in. Jane Englefield asks scientists, designers and a food critic what's at stake.

One of the challenges for alternative proteins, particularly plant-based, is developing a product that mimics the taste of traditional meat. Many startups have taken on this challenge. But the ...

As the world’s population increases, cultivated or lab-grown meat — animal muscle and fat cells grown in laboratory conditions — has emerged as a potential way to satisfy future protein needs. And ...

Meat consumption across the world has been rising since the 1960s. Some countries, like the United States, Argentina and Australia, eat far more meat than others - but as a rule, humanity's taste for ...

Red meat isn’t actually red. That’s the first lesson I learned in the University of Tor Vergata’s biology lab. “Meat’s redness comes from the blood, and there’s no blood here,” said Cesare Gargioli, ...

Seven Republican-led states have banned the manufacture, sale or distribution of lab-grown meat – with the backing of RFK Jr.

Naima Brown’s encounter with a lab-grown chicken nugget reminded her of a Happy Meal – but she’s less certain about what it means for the future of food “Clean”, “cultured”, “no-kill” – these are just ...

The chicken before me had neither lived nor died, but it did look really tasty. Five stories up, in a sunny event space tucked away in New York City’s Little Italy earlier this month, chefs had been ...

The world's first hamburger made with a synthetic meat protein derived from bovine stem cells will be publicly consumed this October after being prepared by a celebrity chef, according to the inventor ...