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In vitro meat
How can we feed 9 billion humans in 2050, who are going to eat 50 % more meat than today? How can we provide enough meat in developing countries where consumption is increasing a lot?
Will livestock farming, the agricultural sector which is growing faster than the others today, be able to cope with the growing amount of consumers?
To answer these questions, the “Frankensteak” seems to be a solution, but is it a real one? Taking stem cells from a single cow could, with this recipe, produce 175 million hamburgers, whereas today we need 440,000 cows for this.
This technique woul allow to free lands to cultivate products directly for humans' consumption: vegetables, cereals …
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Mark Post, a Dutch researcher, had an idea. He is the first scientist to create an in vitro minced beef, only made in laboratory.
In vitro meat, also called cultivated meat or artificial meat, is a product only made with meat and realized with methods from tissue engineering.
Scientists use animal flesh to “create” this kind of food.
China has just signed an agreement with Israel; Beijing will probably invest 300 million dollars in many companies like SuperMeat, Meat the Future or FutureMeat technologies which work on the research for in vitro meat.
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​For sale in 2020?
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Mark Post answered many criticisms and he expressed his desire to use healthier ingredients. In an interview to The Observer, he admitted that they will have to beat the consumer’s revulsion about this kind of products.
But in his lab, 70% of questioned people think that his research is beneficial. He also announced that he is working on a “real” steak and not just a burger, but he said that it is more difficult and that they will have to work with specialists in 3D printing.
American Net billionaires invested money in in vitro meat: Google, Google x lab …
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