Plant-based and lab-grown meat alternatives are being combined to create “hybrid” meat - Vox

Hybrid cars gave way to electric vehicles. Could "hybrid meat" do the same for beef and pork?

Part of Back to the Future, from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. This much is true: Production and consumption of meat is an environmental and ethical catastrophe. And we keep eating more of it, with enormous consequences. There’s climate change and the environment: Almost 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to livestock, while in the US alone, air pollution from meat production is linked to 12,700 premature deaths each year. Or lifesaving drugs: Three-quarters of antibiotics used globally are fed to farmed animals, and…

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