Cultured (lab-grown) meat
Carne cultivada en laboratorio
- Date
- 2013 · confidence high
- Place
- Maastricht University, Netherlands (presented in London, 2013); first sale in Singapore (Eat Just, 2020)
- Credited to
- Mark Post (Maastricht); first regulatory approval in Singapore (2020) and the United States (2023)
- People
- 👤 Mark Post1957–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Meat produced by growing animal muscle cells in bioreactors without slaughtering animals. The first burger cost 250,000 euros; it was first sold commercially in 2020.
What it led to
- The alternative protein industry and bans in Italy and Florida
- Food bioengineering and precision fermentation
- The debate over the climate impact of livestock farming
Built on
- Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)2006-2007
- cell culture
- pharmaceutical bioreactors
Made possible
- precision fermentation
- food bioreactors