{"id":182207,"date":"2024-02-07T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/meatball-made-from-woolly-mammoth-unveiled-in-the-netherlands"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:27:54","slug":"meatball-made-from-woolly-mammoth-unveiled-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/meatball-made-from-woolly-mammoth-unveiled-in-the-netherlands","title":{"rendered":"Meatball made from woolly mammoth unveiled in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADNDIixeXG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An Australian cultured meat startup has \u201cresurrected\u201d the woolly mammoth \u2014 in the hope that people will think about eating it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Our traditional way of producing meat \u2014 by raising and slaughtering animals \u2014 is both bad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7256495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">environment<\/a> and arguably unethical, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/04\/26\/1023636\/sustainable-meat-livestock-production-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demand for meat<\/a> continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Cultured meat, which is grown from muscle cells in a lab, can perfectly replicate the flavor of meat that comes from animals, so carnivores may prefer it to plant-based alternatives \u2014 once prices come down, at least. But some people may hesitate to even try cultured beef or pork when they could just keep eating the \u201creal\u201d stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian cultured meat startup has \u201cresurrected\u201d the woolly mammoth \u2014 in the hope that people will think about eating it. The challenge: Our traditional way of producing meat \u2014 by raising and slaughtering animals \u2014 is both bad for the environment and arguably unethical, yet demand for meat continues to increase. Cultured meat, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}