INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Are consumers ready for meat grown in a lab?Companies like Memphis Meats, Aleph Farms, Higher Steaks, Mosa Meat and Meatable are all trying
Technologies has raised $14 million in new financing to build its first pilot manufacturing facilities to bring the cost of production of a
Rather, the company wants to be the supplier of the hardware and cell lines that anyone would need to become a manufacturer of lab-grown
Tyson contracts with poultry farmers to raise the chickens that the company slaughters and processes, and provides them with the means to
undifferentiated fibroblast cells that can be triggered with small molecules to turn into either fat cells or muscle cells
bovine serum to grow its meat products, it does use small molecules derived from CHO cells (Chinese hamster ovaries), which are used in new
slaughter).The former Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor first began thinking about the lab-grown meat business while on sabbatical
including S2G Ventures, a Chicago-based venture firm (and an early investor in Beyond Meat); Emerald Technology Ventures, a Swiss
investment firm; Tyson Ventures (one of the most active strategic investors); and Bits x Bites (a Chinese investor in food and agriculture
From there the biomass goes through a process like extrusion
You can have thousands of these mass producing units
pursuing alternatives to animal husbandry, Future Meat, which was only founded last year, has a mission to reduce the environmental impact
The company argues that its manufacturing model will reduce land use by 99% and emit 80% less greenhouse gas than traditional meat
to cost parity with regular beef
