Two California-based companies have been granted approval in the United States for the production of lab-grown meat, specifically cell-cultivated chicken, marking a significant development in sustainable food production.
For as long as we can look back in history, people have been eating meat. The number of meat eaters has risen sharply with the new culture and society, along with increased incomes.
When it comes to eating meat, we take it for granted and just think it comes from animals, but wait, science has progressed so much that we can grow meat in a laboratory entirely out of an animal’s body. This is known as lab-grown meat/cell-cultured meat, which is being hailed as the answer to our problems of warming and climate change caused by commercial animal rearing.
Compared to terms like free range and farm-raised, lab-grown leaves a lot to the imagination when it comes to how cultured meat is made, but it’s not as scary as it sounds.
Scientists use an animal’s stem cells, the building blocks of muscle and other organs, to begin the process of creating cultured meat. The cells are placed in petri dishes with amino acids and carbohydrates to help the muscle cells multiply and grow.
Bioreactors are specialized containers that provide cells with the necessary resources, such as nutrients and a suitable environment, to replicate and grow into edible meat.
Once enough muscle fibers have grown, the result is meat that resembles ground meat.
In 2020, Singapore became the first country to approve the sale of alternative meat.
The pace at which the scientific community is making advances is really commendable. Production of Lab-grown meat will help reduce GHG emissions, address food security and nutritional challenges, increase land use efficiency and bring down animal slaughter, which will help our society become more humane, technologically advanced and efficient at taking care of other life forms and our planet.
However, there is a need to invest in R&D to improve production, reduce costs and build consumer awareness in order for it to gain wider acceptance.
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