Future Meats drives cost of lab-grown chicken down to $1.70 a breast

https://newatlas.com ^ | 20 December 2021 | Nick Lavars

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There has been a lot of activity in the world of cultured meat since we reported on a US$330,000 lab-grown burger back in 2013, as scientists and startups work to bring the price down to something resembling the real deal. Making inroads in this space is Israeli startup Future Meats, which has just received the largest investment ever in the cultured meat industry and is rapidly reducing the production costs of its lab-grown chicken.

Future Meats is one of a number of cultured meat companies working to reach cost parity with traditional meat products, with Impossible Foods, Eat Just and fellow Israeli outfit Aleph Farms also making significant advances in the last couple of years.

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With its own proprietary technology it calls a "media rejuvenation process," Future Meats is looking to make up this ground, fast. Its approach involves taking cells harvested from live animals and using stainless steel fermenters to continually remove waste products, while feeding the cells nutrients so that they proliferate and develop into tissues and, in turn, edible cuts of meat.

The company says this process leads to yields 10 times higher than the industry standard, while generating 80 percent less greenhouse gas emissions, using 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production. In February, Future Meats announced that its technology had advanced to the point where it could produce a cultured chicken breast for US$7.50, and then in June it opened the world's first lab-grown meat factory in the Israeli city of Rehovot, where it was able to produce these breasts for $3.90 a pop.

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Cultured meat = Goo

Plenty of chemicals in it I’m sure.

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How do they get away with calling it chicken? At most it should be called ‘chicken flavored.’

Also, if the chicken goo is $1.70 per breast wouldn’t that mean it’s about $6 per pound?

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Not as good as raising your own, but probably better than what you get from tortured chickens crammed into cage farms and pumped full of crap.

The future of cultured meat may be very weird, though. They could culture any kind of meat cells they obtain from living beings, such as exotic animals or even people.

I see a future where celebrities have their cells cultured and sold as food to adoring fans. Most likely females will be preferred. Emma Watson Lean Ground.

The unfortunates who live within smelling distance of stockyards or slaughter houses (I have found myself too close to both in past residences) won’t be sorry to see them go.

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