Mission Barns wants you to eat as much bacon as you want. The real stuff. Not turkey bacon, not some bacon simulacrum made from soy and hydrogenated oils. Real bacon from a real pig. They just don’t understand why you have to kill a pig to get it.

Mission Barns is a California-based startup specializing in lab-grown pork. Their latest creation is lab-grown pork fat that they hope will revolutionize the meat industry, how people eat, and reduce environmental damage.

The process doesn’t start with a slaughterhouse. It begins with a single pig named Dawn, a Yorkshire pig in upstate New York. Workers take a tiny sample of her fatty tissue, essentially a biopsy, then feed it a mix of plant sugars, proteins, and vitamins inside a cultivator. Over the next two weeks, the fat cells grow as they

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