Scientists have made a huge meatball with mammoth DNA

A giant meatball created from the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was put on display this week by scientists at Nemo, a museum in the Netherlands.

Vow, the cultured meat company behind this tasty abomination, used the mammoth ball as an opportunity to get people talking about cultured meat as an alternative to the real thing.

Using myoglobin to recreate the color, taste and smell of meat, the Mammoth Meatball was created without killing any animals, and instead produced using DNA and an alternative to meat.

It is said to have the smell of crocodile meat, which is an unfamiliar smell to me, so I can’t say if it really makes me want to eat the mammoth ball. Unfortunately, Vow said the meatball is not intended for consumption at this time, as it requires rigorous testing due to the use of a 4,000 year old protein.

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Would you eat a mammoth meatball?

Thanks Reuters.

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