Massive woolly mammoth meatball unveiled in the Netherlands

Massive woolly mammoth meatball unveiled in the Netherlands

A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.

The meatball was created by Australian cultured meat company Vow, which โ€“ promising this was not an April Foolsโ€™ joke โ€“ said it wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative for real meat.

โ€œWe wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now,โ€ Vow founder Tim Noakesmith said, adding that an additional reason for choosing mammoth is that scientists believe that the animalโ€™s extinction was caused by climate change.

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