Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm

Vow created the mammoth meatball to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals. Photograph: Aico Lind/Studio Aico

A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals.

The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.