Americans love meat. And despite a whole range of new plant-based alternatives that have hit the market, our appetite for pork, beef and poultry only seems to be growing. In the past few years, ...

Lab-grown meat is ever closer to giving vegetarians a chance to bite into hamburgers that more closely resemble the real thing. After all, many still yearn for the flavour and texture of bacon, ...

Recently, a photo of rice left me confused. The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy hue gave me the creeps. According to the scientists who’d developed it, each ...

In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown meat. The treat contains plant-based ingredients and 4% chicken meat cultivated in a lab by ...

The industry touts it as more humane and environmentally sustainable than breeding and slaughtering livestock. But some would-be customers aren’t into it. USA Today Network file photos The headline on ...

Several U.S. states, including Florida and Alabama, have recently banned the sale of lab-grown meat. Lawmakers are pushing to keep cultivated meat, grown from animal cells, out of grocery stores and ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The industry touts it as more humane and environmentally sustainable than breeding and ...