lab-grown meat is made of cells harmlessly drawn from a cow and then cultured to grow and form muscle fibers. Scientists and businesses working full steam to produce lab-created meat claim it will be healthier than conventional meat.
Cultured meat, also called synthetic meat, cell-cultured meat and in vitro meat, is meat grown in cell culture instead of inside animals. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.
It’s not just cow-free beef burgers on the future menu — several groups around the world are attempting to clone chicken breasts and fish fillets, as well.
Cultured meat will save us resources and reduce the meat industry’s environmental footprint if we can produce the stuff at economies of scale. The meat growers of the future are dreaming big.
Scientist would like to eliminate the use of animal products from the culturing process. In laboratories, cells are often grown using a fetal bovine serum extracted from unborn calves.
Memphis Meats is the first company in the world to produce meat that has been grown in a lab.