00:00In food sustainability news, this glass-encased giant meatball was made in a lab using flesh
00:06cultivated from the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth. The meatball was unveiled at the
00:12Nemo Science Museum in the Netherlands by Vau, Australia's largest cultured meat company.
00:19The woolly mammoth, genetic ancestor to the modern elephant and a global symbol for extinction,
00:24hasn't been around for about 3,700 years. According to A-Z animals, most woolly mammoths had died off about
00:3210,000 years ago, but few populations survived near what is now Russia.
00:37We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now.
00:41The second reason is that the mammoth has traditionally been a symbol of loss.
00:45Mammoths we know now were wiped out because of climate change, and we wanted to draw attention to a different
00:50future,
00:51something more exciting, something where we can eat our way out of extinction.
00:55According to Reuters, cultured meat as a food is not regulated in the EU, which Vau wants to change.
01:01They say lab-grown protein is a sustainable alternative to real meat.
01:06With meat alternatives growing in popularity, the world might be seeing and tasting a lot more mammoth than it has
01:13been in a few millennia.
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