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Aleph Farms has announced a world’s first: slaughter-free steak. The Israeli start-up’s cellular innovation apparently delivers “the full experience of meat with the appearance, shape and texture of beef cuts.”

Lab-grown meat (a.k.a. clean meat) is produced without killing animals, and while Aleph Farms is not alone in this pursuit, the company is breaking ground by replicating meat’s texture and structure in 3-D. Creating lab-grown ground meat is difficult enough, Didier Toubia, co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms says, let alone making an entire steak. “Meat is a complex tissue. This breakthrough includes various cell types found in conventional cuts of meat grown together outside the animal to form a 3-D structure similar to meat but using more sustainable, safe and ethical methods,” he explains in a video. “These first cell-based meat cuts demonstrate our capability of achieving our vision of growing steaks.”