Names and News - Are we ready for meat from a lab

Are we ready for meat? From a lab? The meat industry has a big impact on the environment. People have been looking for more environmentally friendly solutions for some time now, although it isn't the norm yet. One day soon, your chicken nuggets and steaks might come from a laboratory with the high environmental cost of farm animals. Food scientists have been looking for other ways to give us protein. Some say plant based alternatives are the future but others have been growing meat in laboratories. Lab grown meat or cultivated protein uses real animal cells but rather than being part of a living animal, the cells are grown in a bioreactor in Singapore in 2020 chicken nuggets made by the US start up eat just became the first lab grown meat to be sold commercially. However, despite big investments, cultivated protein start ups are struggling eat. Just's ceo Josh Tetrick told the financial times if your interest is maximizing profitability in the early years, you should never start a cultivated meat company. The problems include unclear regulation in many countries, technology challenges and high production costs. And then there's the question of what consumers think awareness of the product is still low. But Tetrick is optimistic saying he wants to make lab grow meat, the boring everyday meat we all consume.