I'd Like to Ask You About the Lab Grown Beef or the Cow Grown Beef Burger

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"I see it as a technological pathway to like basically unlocking like affordable protein and nutritious diets across the world," she says. In terms of Jewish law you could have a cheeseburger with lab grown meat. A real cheese but now the final twist is there are people here in Israel I know working on lab grown cheese that will not be considered dairy. "It might bother Naseem Nicholas Talibot he's very worried about Imprudence in that kind of area."

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