The applications of cultured meat have led to ethical, health, environmental, cultural, and economic discussions. The production process is constantly evolving, driven by multiple companies and research institutions. Avant Meats has brought cultured grouper fish to market as other companies have started to pursue cultivating additional fish species and other seafood. While most efforts in the space focus on common meats such as pork, beef, and chicken which comprise the bulk of consumption in developed countries, some new companies such as Orbillion Bio have focused on high end or unusual meats including Elk, Lamb, Bison, and the prized Wagyu strain of beef. Since then, other cultured meat prototypes have gained media attention: SuperMeat opened a farm-to-fork restaurant called 'The Chicken' in Tel Aviv to test consumer reaction to its 'Chicken' burger, while the 'world's first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat' occurred in December 2020 at the Singapore restaurant '1880', where cultured meat manufactured by the United States firm Eat Just was sold. In 2013, professor Mark Post at Maastricht University pioneered a proof-of-concept for cultured meat by creating the first hamburger patty grown directly from cells. įile:The Meat Revolution Mark Post.webm File:Lab Grown Meat explained by New Harvest.webm Specifically, it can be thought of in the context of the mitigation of climate change. Ĭultured meat may have the potential to address substantial global problems of the environmental impact of meat production, animal welfare, food security and human health. The concept of cultured meat was introduced to wider audiences by Jason Matheny in the early 2000s after he co-authored a paper on cultured meat production and created New Harvest, the world's first nonprofit organization dedicated to in-vitro meat research. Ĭultured meat is produced using tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicines. It is a form of cellular agriculture, with such agricultural methods being explored in the context of increased consumer demand for protein. Only then can we “avoid the slippery definitions and vague mood-affiliation and can talk about real things”.Presentation of the world's first cultured hamburger being fried at a news conference in London on 5 August 2013.Ĭultured meat (also known by other names, see below) is a meat produced by in vitro cell cultures of animal cells. “One way is to talk without using these highly charged, badly defined terms: rather than ask ‘Is Britain a racist country?’, ask ‘Do ethnic minorities have worse outcomes than white people?’ (Yes.) Or ‘Are black people less likely to be hired than equivalently qualified white people?’(Yes.)”. “They turn on taking some phrase that sounds like it means something concrete, then change its definition so that we can never pin down an actual point of disagreement.” “How can we get around this?” asks Chivers. While “it feels like we’re arguing about something real, something that we could eventually resolve”, the reality is that almost all culture war debates are “set up to fail”, he writes. These arguments, and many like them, “never seem to end they occupy some huge part of our national conversation”. “Is ‘cancel culture’ real? Is Britain ‘institutionally racist’?” asks Tom Chivers on UnHerd.

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