Australian company makes a meatball from a Wooly Mammoth, but it's not for eating

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Published March 29, 2023 at 6:04 AM EDT

Vow, which made the meatball from the genetic code of the extinct mammoth, wants to transition people away from meat-eating. It used faux meat to symbolize how climate change affects biodiversity.

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