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> The meatball was created by Australian cultured meat company Vow, which - promising this was not an April Fools' joke - said it wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative for real meat.

> While creating cultured meat usually means using blood of a dead calf, Vow used an alternative, meaning no animals were killed in the making of the mammoth meatball.

> Vow hopes to put cultured meat on the map in the European Union, a market where such meat as food is not regulated yet.

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