Cultured meat, animal-free dairy shake up plant-based aisles: shoppers face new choices

Advances in food technology—most notably products grown from cells and dairy proteins produced without cows—are forcing a rethink of long-standing dietary choices rooted in religious ethics and traditional medicine. For people who follow Hindu teachings about non-harm and practitioners of Ayurveda, these new foods raise practical and moral questions about what counts as “animal” food…