Even if certified safe for human consumption,
meat grown in a lab will have to overcome the «yuck factor» twice over.
Not exact matches
Bill Gates and Richard Branson invested
in Memphis
Meats, a start - up that makes
lab -
grown meat alongside Tyson Foods and Cargill.
Lab -
grown meat or wine requires far fewer resources, and could be the solution to environmental concerns
in many categories.
Brooklyn - based startup Modern Meadow
grows fish, poultry,
meat, and leather
in its
labs from muscle cells.
Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean
meat really is
meat; it just
grows in a
lab instead of being part of an animal.
Bill Gates has invested
in lab -
grown meat companies, as has Richard Branson.
Schmidt went on to discuss fields that show promise for innovation, from
lab -
grown beef to replace climate - unfriendly cow's
meat to self - driving cars, which,
in Schmidt's opinion, have been
in development for far too long.
The industry has landed on «clean
meat,» after deciding that terms like «
lab -
grown meat,» «
in vitro
meat,» and «cultured
meat» all have too much of an ick factor.
One of the company's first pilot products is
lab -
grown chicken
meat that chefs have already used
in some recipes.
Its competitors include Mosa
Meat, co-founded by Dr. Post and Maastricht University, which aims to commercialise lab - grown minced meat in 5 ye
Meat, co-founded by Dr. Post and Maastricht University, which aims to commercialise
lab -
grown minced
meat in 5 ye
meat in 5 years.
In fact, lab - grown meat is nothing new — you probably recall the taste test of the first lab - made burger in 201
In fact,
lab -
grown meat is nothing new — you probably recall the taste test of the first
lab - made burger
in 201
in 2013.
Although many are yet to jump on this bandwagon, leaders like Google's Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates are optimistic about the opportunities
in lab -
grown meat.
Growing lab -
grown meat in a sterile environment can cut back on contamination and eliminate antibiotics from the
meat production process.
Earlier
in September, China announced a $ 300M deal to import
lab -
grown meat from three Israel - based companies — SuperMeat, Future Meat Technologies, and Meat the Future — as part of a broader plan to decrease the country's meat consumption by 5
meat from three Israel - based companies — SuperMeat, Future
Meat Technologies, and Meat the Future — as part of a broader plan to decrease the country's meat consumption by 5
Meat Technologies, and
Meat the Future — as part of a broader plan to decrease the country's meat consumption by 5
Meat the Future — as part of a broader plan to decrease the country's
meat consumption by 5
meat consumption by 50 %.
Memphis
Meats wasn't the first company to explore
lab -
grown meat products: Dr. Mark Post, a Netherlands - based researcher, produced the world's first
lab -
grown burger
in 2013,
in research originally financed by Google's co-founder Sergey Brin.
In the next few years, we can likely expect to see the cost of
lab -
grown meat decrease considerably.
One of the main reasons that
lab -
grown meat is so expensive is due to the prevalence of fetal bovine serum, or FBS,
in meatless products.
Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on
lab -
grown meat; others believe the future lies
in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.
The beef industry is taking aim at companies producing
lab -
grown meat alternatives, arguing for stricter regulations that would prevent pioneers
in this space from using terms such as» beef» and...
While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to
grow clean
meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women
in white coats — others see the
lab -
grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to
meat eating.
Tyson Foods, Inc. owns a stake
in Beyond
Meat and, along with Cargill, recently invested in lab - grown meat company Memphis Me
Meat and, along with Cargill, recently invested
in lab -
grown meat company Memphis Me
meat company Memphis
Meats.
The beef industry is taking aim at companies producing
lab -
grown meat alternatives, arguing for stricter regulations that would prevent pioneers
in this space from using terms such as» beef» and «
meat» on product labelling.
Tyson Foods, the world's second largest
meat company, has taken a minority stake
in a pioneering San Francisco startup that aspires to bring
lab -
grown meat to the masses.
Israeli biomedical engineer Amit Gefen says his plans for a
lab -
grown chicken breast are just the beginning of a new era
in sustainable
meat.
Using the format of the cookbook as a storytelling medium, the
In Vitro
Meat Cookbook is a visually stunning exploration of the new «food cultures» lab - grown meat might cre
Meat Cookbook is a visually stunning exploration of the new «food cultures»
lab -
grown meat might cre
meat might create.
02 Feb 2018 — Clean
meat innovators Memphis
Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim
in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested
in the food tech startup which
lab -
grows meat directly from animal cells.
THE Shojinmeat Project
in Japan is teaching people how to make
lab -
grown meat themselves at home.
Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to
grow meat in the
lab, and Editor
in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the cover piece
in the May issue on radical energy solutions
In her letter on
lab -
grown meat, Ingrid Newkirk makes a false comparison between eating
meat and using tobacco, when she says that
meat eaters, «like smokers trying to quit tobacco, find it very hard to give up the stuff» (24 September, p 39).
And at that point, he started to think about, you know, the idea of being able to
grow meat from stem cells or from cells; to be able to
grow meat in a
lab as opposed to, you know, raising animals
in a farm somewhere; to be able to have a
lab and
grow meat anywhere, you know, regardless of the environmental conditions or other factors.
Currently, most research into
lab -
grown meat comes from biologists
in the Netherlands.
The world's first
lab -
grown sausage is scheduled to appear
in six months, with a hamburger to follow later (see «
Meat without slaughter»).
But don't expect to find Post's
lab -
grown meat on your local supermarket shelf
in the near future.
In contrast to previous studies, lab - grown meat was found to be no more sustainable than chicken or eggs, requiring an equivalent area of land but using more energy in productio
In contrast to previous studies,
lab -
grown meat was found to be no more sustainable than chicken or eggs, requiring an equivalent area of land but using more energy
in productio
in production.
PETA's discontinued prize to develop
lab -
grown chicken
meat was inspired by Herbert Hoover's campaign pledge, displayed
in this political ad from 1928.
Since then, he and his colleagues have shown
in lab studies of rodents and pythons that these animals
grow up bigger and faster when they eat cooked
meat instead of raw
meat — and that it takes less energy to digest cooked
meat than raw
meat.
While this piece of «
meat,» which was said to have tasted «close to
meat,» represents significant progress
in the field of making
lab -
grown food, the current approach needs to be improved before widespread use is feasible; the patty cost over $ 330,000 to make (not to mention probably significant culturing time
in the
lab to generate the 20,000 muscle strands used to make the patty).
Seldon's San Francisco - based company, Finless Foods, is using cellular agriculture to
grow fish
in a
lab, using progenitor cells taken from a small piece of fish
meat.
The
lab -
grown meat feels and behaves a lot like regular
meat —
in part because Post actually manually exercises the synthetic tissue.