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Giant meatball created using woolly mammoth fleshA mammoth meatball has been created using the resurrected flesh of the long-extinct animal.It was produced by a cultivated meat company as part of a project trying to demonstrate the potential of growing flesh from cells without slaughtering animals.Vow, the Australian company behind the innovation, is aiming to use cells from unconventional species to create new kinds of meat, while highlighting the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.But no one has yet tasted the mammoth meatball, as the scientists behind it say they would have “no idea how our immune system would react when we eat it.”The company has already investigated the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, peacocks and different types of fish.
Paul O'Grady: TV presenter and comedian dies aged 67O'Grady rose to fame in the 1990s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, going on to present BBC One game show Blankety Blank and other light entertainment programmes.Later in his career, he went on to host a number of chat shows, and also brought his love of dogs to the screen.A statement released on behalf of Queen Consort, Camilla, she was "deeply saddened to have learned of the death of Paul O'Grady, with whom she worked closely to support the work of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and whose warm heart and infectious humour lit up the lives of so many".
Hero's return for astronaut Shaun the SheepIt was a giant leap for lamb-kind, but now he's baa-ck.Shaun the Sheep has returned to Britain after taking part in the US space agency's (Nasa) epic mission to the Moon last year.A model of the animated movie character was a passenger in the capsule that was blasted into orbit by the world's most powerful operational rocket.Shaun covered almost 1.5 million miles on his lunar travels before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
Fraud inquiry launched after foreign pork allegedly sold as BritishForeign pork falsely labelled as British appears to have been sold by leading supermarkets, according to a new report released as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) launched an investigation into supply chain fraud.An investigation by the trade publication Farmers Weekly has found that until at least the end of 2020, one of the UK’s top food manufacturers has been selling mislabelled and sometimes rotten meat to retailers.Meat produced by the company is reported to have ended up in products such as ready meals, quiches, sandwiches and other produce sold in Tesco, Asda, Co-op, Morrisons and Marks & Spencer.