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Title    Paris-Based Company Gourmey Hopes Ethical Lab-Grown Foie Gras Will Overcome Bans
Date    Monday July 26 2021, @01:07AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/07/25/1854212

upstart writes:

Paris-based Gourmey hopes ethical lab grown foie gras will overcome bans - EU Today:

The push to make foie gras, the fattened liver of a duck or goose, in a lab comes amid a push to find a sustainable, ethical alternative to meat raised for slaughter. Most foie gras is made by force-feeding ducks and geese through a tube to engorge their livers up to 10 times their normal sizes. The process can leave ducks too big to walk or breathe, according to animal activists.

[...] With growing opposition to foie gras because of animal cruelty concerns, Nicolas Morin-Forest, Gourmey’s co-founder and chief executive, said that producing the delicacy from cultivated cells was a way to preserve a centuries-old French culinary tradition.

[...] Gourmey engineers faux meat by taking cells out of a freshly laid duck egg and placing them into a cultivator. The cells are then fed with proteins, amino acids and sugar, similar to the nutrients a duck would get from a diet of oats, corn and grass. The cells are then harvested and transformed into foie gras in a process that uses significantly less land and water than traditional methods.

[...] Mr. Morin-Forest said that, on a technical level, foie gras was well suited to be grown in a lab precisely because of its delicate texture compared with other types of meat.


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  2. "Paris-based Gourmey hopes ethical lab grown foie gras will overcome bans - EU Today" - https://eutoday.net/news/dining-in-europe/2021/paris-based-gourmey-hopes-ethical-lab-grown-foie-gras-will-overcome-bans
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