A priori, these chicken skewers are no different from the meat that is sold in a butcher shop. Except for the mention on the label “Made in Singapore”. Strange, even suspicious, because in this tiny and completely urban country there is not the slightest poultry farm.
“Yes, this is not a farm, this is produced in a factory, so no land is needed. For a butcher like me, it’s weird, I grew up on food.” real meat, I love meat, but in the end, I know that we are exhausting the planet with this. I go to slaughterhouses and it’s not always a pretty sight.”explains Butcher in the video at the top of this article.
A kilogram of chicken is produced in three days
So the butcher made room for what he calls cultured meat. Apparently test-tube chicken he serves at a nearby restaurant. “The consistency is like chicken in your mouth. But for me, it doesn’t really taste like chicken.”explains the client. “I wonder if I was blind I could tell it apart from a real chicken, I’m not sure”invalidates the other.
This meat barn is a discreet, ultra-modern building that looks more like an office than a farm. To enter, you must put on a sterile suit to get close enough to a small machine that currently produces chicken meat from cultured cells. “We can produce a kilogram in three days, which is much more efficient than traditional farming”the scientist explains.
Our goal is to produce it in vitro responsibly and without microplastics and heavy metals found in nature.
Our goal is to produce it in vitro responsibly and without microplastics and heavy metals found in nature.
laboratory assistant
To reproduce, stem cells must bathe in a kind of soup, a mixture of oxygen, proteins and hormones. Hormones that sometimes come from real animals. The fetal bovine serum, extracted from the fetus of a calf during the slaughter of a cow, is an indisputable secret of the industry. It is very difficult to do without it. But this is very expensive and, above all, it is contrary to the promise of producing meat without killing animals. However, this does not stop the gold rush.
“We are investing tens of millions of dollars in a factory here in Singapore and then we will build a bigger one. We will be producing millions, billions of tons of meat.”, explains the industrialist. The same technology allows the production of fish meat.
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In a laboratory visited by one of our teams, for example, a Japanese eel. “This is a highly sought after fish that cannot be grown in aquaculture and is also a protected, fragile species. Our goal is to grow it in test tubes in a responsible way, free of microplastics and heavy metals. in nature”clarifies the research director of the company.
The market is potentially gigantic, but even Singapore’s plant-based protein pioneers aren’t yet producing it commercially.
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