Future Fields makes its growth factor using fruit flies. One of those solutions could be found in Edmonton, Alberta, home to Future Fields, a biotechnology company that originally had a vision to produce Canada’s first “cultivated chicken nugget,” but pivoted to making “growth factors,” which are essentially the fuel that makes those animal cells grow in the lab.
As the population of the world grows, we’re going to need more protein, especially as people become more affluent, they want to eat more meat… and if we’re going to satisfy all these people, we’re going to have to have more ways to make meat for them, and we’re not getting any more land.” “This is a click-over point for us as food producers it’s historic. “We’re in golden age of food science,” says McCauley. Nutritionally and molecularly, it's meat. We’ve seen faux meat before (remember the Impossible Burger?), but unlike previous iterations, McCauley says these lab-grown meats are bio-identical to “real” meat. Then, a process called “precision fermentation” is used to give them the qualities we look for in meat-like products, like the chewiness of a steak or the juiciness of a burger. The cells grow by feeding on a starch that’s left after all the protein has been extracted from a chickpea, for example. “In very lay language, the technique for making these kinds of proteins is to get stem cells and serum from a live animal-it doesn’t hurt them in any way-and you take those cells, and you multiply them in a controlled environment,” she says. “Lab-grown meat”-or cultivated meat, or cellular agriculture, as it’s variously called-would be more accurately described as bio-manufactured meat, explains Dana McCauley, chief experience officer at the Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN). If you’re having visions of fully formed chicken breasts springing out of petri dishes, you’re close.
the second country in the world after Singapore to legalize something that seems straight out of a science fiction novel, but it seems to herald the dawn of a whole new way for our species to eat.
Food and Drug Administration issued a game-changing verdict: Lab-grown meat was safe to eat, and a California-based company called Upside Foods had the green light to begin using cells from live chickens to, well, grow more chicken meat in a lab.Īs moments in food history go, this one’s a biggie: Not only did it make the U.S. Unlike previous types of faux meat, lab-grown meats are said to be bio-identical to “real” meat (Illustration by Dan P.
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