The Biggest Problem With Lab-Grown Chicken Is Growing the Chicken

2023-12-14    

Post said he expected to see cultivated meat in supermarkets in about a decade, in no small part bolstered by Mosa Meat BV, the company he would co-found three years later. (Today, despite having raised about $105 million, Mosa is still only inching closer to serving at tasting events in the Netherlands, where it’s based.) This wouldn’t be the first industry to grow animal cells in a laboratory—biopharma companies have been doing it for decades to make vaccines and other biological products—but this marked the start of a new way to make food. Silicon Valley, as it does, ran with the idea. It was as ambitious as it was outlandish: Most of the world’s 8 billion people eat meat, but it’s bad for the environment and obviously for animals. Rather than persuade carnivores to give up their favorite meal, why not just grow it in a lab?

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