‘You don’t need animals to make real meat’: the man who grows chicken in a lab

So for anyone who saw and instantly disregarded the “most expensive burger in the world” (a prototype lab-grown product that cost an estimated £215,000) back in 2013, or those for whom lab-grown meat feels like spooky sci-fi, it’s over to Ensor for a basic primer. With no science background himself, he is good at keeping it simple. “We’re taking cells from an animal and making meat outside that animal. That is the simplest explanation.”