Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks

Now that Australia has approved the sale of lab-grown meat, Vow has created foie gras made from Japanese quail cells seen here served with Tasmanian scallop and berries. Photograph: The Guardian

For over a decade, lab-grown meat has been hailed as the food of tomorrow – a plate changing technological innovation that is right around the corner. Now, in Australia, tomorrow has finally come.

After a two-year-long approval process, Food Standards Australia New Zealand has given Australian food technology startup Vow foods the green light to sell three products made from cultured quail cells.