Sentences with phrase «on cellular agriculture»

In October some 300 people gather in a converted warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for the second annual New Harvest conference on cellular agriculture.

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One obvious tell that you are visiting a startup working on this form of cellular agriculture is the yeasty smell that hits you as you walk into one of their labs.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

But the test tube burger, rolled out to the press in 2013, has helped put a spotlight on the question of how the U.S. government will regulate the emerging field of cellular agriculture, which uses biotechnology instead of animals to make products such as meat, milk, and egg whites.

Although cellular agriculture advocates tend to dwell on the process — because they say it could lead to safer, more humane, and more sustainable food production — FDA looks only at the final product.