GLOBAL CULTURED MEAT MARKET SET TO BOOM, BUT IS IT HALAL?
May 27th, 2022
The global ‘cultured’ artificially-produced meat market may be set to soar amid greater environment-friendly government policies worldwide, investment and the growth in green consumerism, but questions remain if this novel food can be recognised as halal.
Cultured meat (also known as lab-grown or cultivated meat) is typically produced by harvesting cells from a living animal and cultivating them outside the animal’s body using tissue engineering and cellular agriculture to form cuts of meat. Therein lies the rub in halal terms, as permissible, or halal, ...
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