meat without feet
n.— «Professor Omholt knows that persuading many people to overcome their knee-jerk distaste for lab meat—or “meat without feet,” as one animal organisation has referred to it—will be tricky.» —“Is in vitro meat the future?” by Carol Midgley Times (London, United Kingdom) May 9, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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