Are Europe's food connoisseurs ready for lab-grown meat and foie gras?

According to the Good Food Institute non-profit think tank, there are 174 publicly announced lab-grown meat and seafood companies worldwide
Are Europe's food connoisseurs ready for lab-grown meat and foie gras?

Lab-grown foie gras could spell the end for the force-feeding of geese which animal rights activists say is inhumane and cruel.

The world's gourmets could soon face a difficult moral question.

They pay up to €100 for a kilogram of fresh foie gras, despite its production involving force-feeding ducks and geese to encourage rapid growth of their livers.

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