Frankinfood!
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:03 pm
Yep, them there boffins have outdone themselves and have produced meat that looks like meat, tastes like meat but didn't require rearing and killing an animal to get it onto your plate.
I'd happily eat it.
I'd happily eat it.
I imagine cultured meat would enjoy listening to classical music, thumbing through favourite passages of Proust and relaxing of an evening with a crystal tumbler of 20-year old malt while wearing a velvet smoking jacket.Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time. The development has been hailed as a landmark moment across the meat industry.
The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to a future when all meat is produced without the killing of livestock, the company said.
Dozens of firms are developing cultivated chicken, beef and pork, with a view to slashing the impact of industrial livestock production on the climate and nature crises, as well as providing cleaner, drug-free and cruelty-free meat. Currently, about 130 million chickens are slaughtered every day for meat, and 4 million pigs. By weight, 60% of the mammals on earth are livestock, 36% are humans and only 4% are wild.
The cells for Eat Just’s product are grown in a 1,200-litre bioreactor and then combined with plant-based ingredients. Initial availability would be limited, the company said, and the bites would be sold in a restaurant in Singapore. The product would be significantly more expensive than conventional chicken until production was scaled up, but Eat Just said it would ultimately be cheaper.
