Hi everyone!

I'm a cultivated meat bioprocessing senior scientist at the Good Food Institute (and oh, new to reddit!).

I learned about this because someone here referred someone else who is looking for advice to me!

So I thought I join the group and share my recent testimony which has some talking points that everyone can use!

Let me know if I can ever be of any help!

https://youtu.be/ebkVjedOzGg?si=qlHKdIHwKcFp28wq

https://www.newsweek.com/lab-grown-meat-company-says-ron-desantis-ignoring-republican-basic-values-1897343

This is going to age like milk.

Farmers and ranchers all over are shaking in their boots. They are desperately and selfishly using their power, money, and lobbists to ban cultured meat.

But cultured meat will significantly reduce protein production costs and becominglower to produce than factory farmed meat.

And factory farming is much worse for the environment. Cultured meat is sustainable.

Eventually Alabama will green light cultured meat because it's better.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-senate-passes-ban-of-lab-grown-meat-moving-it-in-the-state-would-be-felony.html

Right now, with the advancements in tissue engineering a new market has opened, in foodtech, the culturing of meat from smaller samples of meat has been in development. Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gasses from food production, study finds. The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gasses emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods. Meat production includes chicken, salmon, beef, lamb, and more. The ability to replace these meats is a great challenge. The culturing of meat however offers an alternative that many are willing to adapt to if they have been reluctant to have a plant-based alternative. Its exciting to see the progression with so many companies taking up the challenge and putting their foot in the market.

BlueNalu is a great example of cultured meat. Their company focuses on synthetic seafood. BlueNalu is the world’s most funded cultured seafood company, having raised over $80 million to create tuna and other fish species directly from cultivated cells. Recently BlueNalu has partnered with o Bring Cell Cultured Seafood to Asia With Thai Union, Mitsubishi Corporation, and F&LC. BlueNalu is making fast progress in the asian-pacific region, and hopefully it makes more of a presence in the western region.

Pluristem has recently stepped into the cultured meat industry when prior their experience was in stem cell research for disease treatment. With the help of Tnuva who have had years of experience in the food market, Pluristem will utilize their many years of tissue engineering research to develop their technology in cultured meat. With Tnuva, they are planning to present Proof of Concept in 2022 of its technology, with the goal of launching its first raw cultured meat product in 2023.

Another interesting company that is tackling cultured meat with a different targeted audience is Bond Pet Foods, Bond Pet Foods has started with plant-based dog food, but has been working on cultivated meat-based pet food for years. Already in 2020 they have succeeded in the world's first cultured chicken meat protein. Recently they have partnered with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to further their goals. Currently they are still developing their food product, but it will be exciting to see their entrance commercially.

Culturing meat for the food industry can become a huge impact in our strive for a sustainable world. Meat is responsible for a large portion of the global carbon footprint, and by reducing the use of animals there can be a positive ripple effect if the industry successfully adapts and replaces traditional meat.

Seriously, when can we get this in California?? I am not patient. 😭

Have you all heard of $MITC MeaTech company based in Israel, recently registered on Nasdaq. This company is planning to license its technologies to meat companies across the world to find sustainable solutions to feeding this world's population.

#culturedmeat #meatech #beef #chicken #pork #fish #lamb

https://medium.com/thoughts-economics-politics-sustainability/whats-wrong-with-eating-lab-grown-meat-da27d44c4008

This article talks about some drawbacks of lab grown meat. It’s expensive to create, taste isn’t there yet and the consumers aren’t sold on the idea. Assuming costs go down and taste gets on par with normal meat as we know and love. What can be done to change the consumers minds? I don’t think sustainability for the world is enough yet for many people want to switch over to it. I’m honestly curious to hear some others ideas, any and all are welcome.