The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat

Illustration: Sébastien Thibault. Article by Tom Philpott. Mother Jones – March-April 2022 Issue.

Lab meat—flesh grown in massive tanks instead of in the bodies of sentient animals—offers the promise of having our steak and eating it guilt-free, too. No vast amounts of water-polluting chemicals to grow feed crops; no low-paid, oft-injured slaughterhouse workers; no climate-warming gases from cow burps or manure lagoons, and no billions of animals slaughtered each year to satisfy our carnivory. […]

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