The company said it's not an April Fools' Day joke – it's actually an effort to bring awareness to sustainable food options that are more climate-friendly:
A meatball made using genetic code from the mammoth is seen at the Nemo science museum in Amsterdam, Tuesday, March 28, 2023.It's a form of cultured meat, a technology being developed by dozens of companies around the world.Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterA company in Australia has made a meatball based on the genetic code of the long-extinct woolly mammoth.
“We wanted to get people excited about the future of food being different to potentially what we had before," Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told the Associated Press. "That there are things that are unique and better than the meats that we’re necessarily eating now, and we thought the mammoth would be a conversation starter and get people excited about this new future."
Advertisement The meatball is a type of cultured meat, created in a lab from animal tissue cells. In this case, Vow used genetic data from a mammoth combined with genetic data from the African elephant, the mammoth's closest living relative. That was inserted into sheep cells and grown until there was enough to roll into a ball.
Dozens of companies around the world are working on similar technology, also known as cultivated meat.of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from agriculture, including cows, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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