What he meant was that the European Union’s biggest oil and gas producer is officially getting out of the petrochemical business after 80 years. That’s the hardest part of the puzzle to solve, because people are very attached to eating meat and there’s no good substitute. This is how progress is generally made in the struggle to stop global heating: one slow step at a time, and maybe therefore too little, too late. But last week saw something much more dramatic on what you might call the Food & Climate front: the first restaurant to serve artificial meat. It’s ‘cultured’ chicken: real live chicken cells grown in a solution containing all the necessary nutrients and doubling in volume every day.

Source: The Star December 09, 2020 00:56 UTC