{"id":13957,"date":"2022-06-12T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefooduntold.com\/?p=13957"},"modified":"2022-06-19T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:36:01","slug":"how-cultured-meat-is-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefooduntold.com\/food-science\/how-cultured-meat-is-produced\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cultured Meat Is Produced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The global population is growing at an increased rate since 2000. As of this writing (06\/2022), Earth is home to an estimated 8 billion people, according the United Nations<\/a>. The number will continue to swell at 8.5 billion by 2030, and increase even further at 10 billion by 2050. Of course, this means more mouths to feed. But how are we going to answer the demand for more food, especially meat? Meat needs to be strategically addressed for some reasons. In Western countries, meat is stable at 30% part of the diet. In developing countries, the rate of consumption of meat is soaring. Animals such as cows and pigs for meat require more resources, including feed, water, fuel, and land. To make things worse, the pressure on these things are steadily climbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So livestock raising may not be a sustainable long-term solution to satisfy the demand for meat. One solution to this predicament is cultured or lab meat. To be clear, cultured meat is meat made from real animal. Cultured meat is produced by cultivating animal (typically cow or pig) cells and growing them in a lab. But why cultured meat? There are many answers to this question, really. But in terms of sustainable, cultured meat helps eliminate the need to raise, slaughter, and process farm animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first edible lab grown meat<\/a> was produced in 2013 by Mark Post in a form of beef burger patty. The patty cost $330, 000 and took a couple of years to produce. Well, unsurprising for a food produced by a relatively novel technology. In 2020, start-up company Eat Just, sold the first ever lab-grown chicken meat ‘chicken bites’<\/a> in Singapore. The production of this cultured meat only takes 14 days, 31 days faster than traditionally raised chickens. And it only costs $17!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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