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Is lab-grown fat the next big trend in food? This company hopes so

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Pigs on a farm. (Matt Kelley/AP)
Pigs on a farm. (Matt Kelley/AP)

Mission Barns mixes lab-grown pork fat with plant-based ingredients to produce sausages, meatballs and salamis. They couldn't do it without a little help from a Yorkshire pig named Dawn, who is alive and well on a sanctuary in upstate New York.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Grist's Matt Simon about "cultivated fat" and the future of meat.

This segment aired on December 3, 2025.

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