After the French and Dutch voted No to the constitution, its contents were minced up and squeezed into a new sausage skin, to make it unrecognisable and allow national governments to say it was a different text that did not need to be put to a vote.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Henk Haagsman, a meat scientist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is trying to make minced pork from cultured stem cells with the backing of Stegeman, a sausage company.

ECONOMIST: Monitor