The Good Food Institute (GFI) coined the term in 2016, and in late 2018, the institute published research claiming that use of clean better reflected the production process and benefits. Artificial meat is occasionally used, although that specific term has multiple definitions.īetween 20, clean meat gained traction. Ĭurrently cultured meat is served at special events and few high end restaurants, mass production of cultured meat has not started yet.īesides cultured meat, the terms healthy meat, slaughter-free meat, in vitro meat, vat-grown meat, lab-grown meat, cell-based meat, clean meat, cultivated meat and synthetic meat have been used to describe the product. In terms of market strength, data published by the non-governmental organization Good Food Institute found that in 2021 cultivated meat companies attracted $140 million in Europe alone. 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 US 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. Ī video by New Harvest / Xprize explaining the development of cultured meat and a "post-animal bio-economy, driven by lab grown protein (meat, eggs, milk)" (runtime 3:09) 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. Presentation of the world's first cultured hamburger being fried at a news conference in London on 5 August 2013Ĭultured meat (also known by other names, see below) is a meat produced by in vitro cell cultures of animal cells.