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Is lab-grown meat kosher?

How fat grown from stem cells could save the plant-based meat industry

Plant-based burger patties on a production line at a food-processing plant.
Yummy, once you add lab-grown fatImage: Getty Images

FOR A WHILE, it seemed everyone was going vegan. In March 2022 almost half of Britons surveyed by Ipsos, a pollster, said they were thinking of eating fewer animal products. But amid high prices and concerns over ultra-processed food, the industry is proving to be more sizzle than steak. In June Meatless Farm, a plant-based company, fell into administration. Demand for patties of rehydrated textured pea protein have flopped. “Meat alternatives don’t taste good enough,” says Max Jamilly, a co-founder of Hoxton Farms, a startup.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Meat demand”

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