'Guilt-free sausages': Lab-grown pork could be coming to British menus by 2023

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UK developer Ivy Farm Technologies sets sights on producing 12,000 tonnes of cultivated pork each year by 2025

The British public may soon be able to enjoy the flavour of sausages with none of the environmental and ethical guilt, thanks to the emergence of sustainable "slaughter-free" meat grown in a lab. Ivy...

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