In the works: lab-made vegan milk : TreeHugger (December 9, 2014)Three vegan bioengineers have started Muufri, a company that’s working to create cow-free milk in the lab. The founders say that test-tube milk will avoid many of the problems associated with factory farming, including animal cruelty and the production of greenhouse gas. Modern Farmer reports that the company had received backing from tech incubators SynBio Axlr8r and Horizon Ventures.
Would you consider this product vegan?
Do we need another word to distinguish between vegans who consume traditional vegan food and those who will include artificially produced animal products? (And by "artificially produced animal products" I mean products that involve the use of animal DNA to make products that are nutritionally more or less indistinguishable from traditionally produced animal products.)