In Australia they made a mammoth meatball

The evolution of science and the food industry is advancing at such a pace that, in Australia, a company has produced a meatball with mammoth meatextinct species about 12 thousand years ago.

Vow, an oceanic island company has introduced the captivating product made from lab-grown meat using the genetic sequence of the extinct pachyderm. They claim it was fabricated to fuel public debate, the news agency reports DAD.

“It’s not a joke,” said Tim Noakesmith, founder of the Australian company, referring to April 1, joke day in various countries. “This is true innovation”.

Cultured meat is made from animal cells. There’s no need to kill livestock for its production, so activists say it’s better, not just for the animal, but for the environment as well.

Oh used genetic information from the mammoth publicly available, you have filled in the missing parts with the genetic data of your closest living relative, the African elephantand entered all this in a sheep cellNoakesmith explained.

Under the right conditions in a laboratory, the cells multiplied until there were enough numbers to form the meatball.

At the moment, more than 100 companies from various parts of the world work on cultured meat productsmany of them startups like Vow.

Experts point out that if this technology is adopted on a large scale, it could significantly reduce the environmental impact of global meat production in the future. Millions of hectares are currently used for agriculture and livestock worldwide.

However, this class of products is not expected to reach the tables of the majority of the population anytime soon.

Until now, Singapore is the only country in the world that has approved cultured meat for human consumption.. Vow hopes that in the next few months he will be able to sell his first product in that country: Japanese cultured quail meat.

The mammoth meatball hasn’t even been tested yet by its creators, he reveals DADwhile the start of commercial production is not foreseen at the moment.

Yes, however, it has been presented as a source of protein that will open the debate on the future of meat.

“We wanted people to be excited that the future of food could be different than it used to be. That there are things that are unique and better than meats that we are consuming right now out of necessity, and we thought the mammoth would be a good place to start this conversation and get people excited about this new future,” Noakesmith said.