© 2023 Michigan State University Board of Trustees
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Available On Air Stations
TECHNOTE: Possible broadcast interruptions Friday 5/26, 6am-7am

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

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Michel Martin.

Who's craving a prehistoric meal? The Australian meat company Vow just made woolly mammoth meatballs. They did it by duplicating the mammoth's DNA sequence for muscle protein and filling in gaps with the elephant genome. The meatballs aren't for eating, thank goodness. Instead, the company says it wants to transition people away from meat-eating. It used faux meat from an extinct animal to symbolize the effects of climate change.

It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Support local journalism by becoming a new WKAR donor and get ad-free feeds of your favorite NPR podcasts with NPR+ when you donate $8/month or more! Make your contribution today to fund more vetted news reports throughout mid-Michigan!