A new cultivated meat effort reported a milestone success in larger volume and lower costs.
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An international collaboration has achieved a new milestone in cruelty-free, ultra-sustainable cellular agriculture! Parima, a cultivated meat startup from France, worked with the Vow company in Australia to grow a record-breaking tonne-scale volume of Parima’s duck meat cell line in Vow’s world-largest 22,000-liter bioreactor located in Sydney. Notably, they managed this massive scale-up by growing duck meat cells not on a scaffolding, but as an undifferentiated biomass in a food-grade nutrient medium, very similar to classic fermentation like how beer is brewed. (Notably, no genetic engineering is involved. These are ordinary duck cells, grown elsewhere).
Critically, the new economy of scale in the giant bioreactor meant that Parima produced this multi-tonne batch of clean duck meat at a per-gram cost 99% cheaper than their previous smaller-scale production runs. It’s a world-first successful example of industrial-scale, reasonably-affordable cultivated meat production! Awesome work.
Cell-cultivated “clean meat” is still a young, niche, and tiny field — but clean energy was that once, and now it’s remaking the world for the better. In years to come, this may be seen as an unheralded landmark in the story of a great new transformation!
Yet cruelty-free meat is already the target of a relentless attack from the industrialized factory-farmed meat industry (a sector also known for its widespread abuses of workers). Shamefully, seven U.S. state legislatures (Nebraska, Montana, Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas) have already passed senseless laws banning the sale of cell-cultivated meats!
The multiple U.S. startups working to sell no-kill clean meat are brand-new, only selling at a few restaurants so far and still working to scale up to supermarket-level production, but politicians are already trying to take them down!
Americans deserve a chance to try cruelty-free sustainable proteins and decide for themselves what they think about clean meat!
State governors and state legislators must keep an open playing field for new meat innovations, and fight ongoing industry attempts to unfairly hobble the growth of America’s brand-new cell-cultivated clean meat industry and restrict consumer freedom for the narrow benefit of a cruel monopoly.
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Your Dose of Climate Hope is written by Sam Matey-Coste for Climate Action Now.