Chinese firm serves up lab-grown pork in world's top meat market


A piece of pork meat cultivated in a lab is displayed during an event by CellX, a cultivated meat startup, to introduce product prototypes in Shanghai, China, on Sept 3, 2021. - Reuters

SHANGHAI, Sept 4 (Reuters): Chinese startup CellX unveiled a selection of lab-grown pork dishes on Friday and said it was aiming to produce the more environmentally friendly meat at competitive prices for the world's top meat-eating nation by 2025.

Investors were invited to taste one of the prototypes produced in its Shanghai lab from cells harvested from China's native black pig.

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