Synthetic, artificial or cultured meat continues to take steps towards a viable future where . In a process by which animals are not killed, food is manufactured thanks to cultured cells, the first factory in the world already has a construction plan and goals that will allow it to produce 500 kilograms per day, the equivalent of 5,000 hamburgers by 2022.
In less than a year, sirloin steaks that have not killed any animal could begin to be seen on supermarket shelves. Thus, he trusts that his plan will be approved, which happens to be viable in the first synthetic meat factory in the world.
Based in Rehovot (Israel), this company has taken advantage of the great advance that Israel is giving to this new food, which they hope to implement in other parts of the world. Among them, the United States, where the FDA (the agency that regulates food in the country) is expected to soon approve the marketing of this artificial meat.
“The opening of this facility marks a major step in Future Meat Technologies’ journey to market as it serves as a critical building block for bringing our products to shelves in 2022,” said Future Meat Technologies CEO Rom Kshuk.
“The factory will allow production densities to be reached ten times higher than the industrial standard”
Created in 2018, Future Meat will start producing chicken, pork and lamb, as well as hoping to soon make the move to beef. “This factory allows us to achieve production densities ten times higher than the industry standard. Our goal is to make cultured meat affordable for everyone, while ensuring that we produce delicious food that is both healthy and sustainable, helping ensure the future of future generations”, the company has remarked.
This is why the Israeli chain assures that it will sell its products at a value close to 3 or 4 euros per hamburger. Products that, in their production, will have generated 80% less CO2, will have used 99% less land and will have saved 96% of the water that a normal meat company uses in its processing.
How do you get the meat?
With , the most normal thing is that, through a biopsy, a sample of living animal cell tissue is taken, which is then placed in a controlled environment of oxygen and temperature. Nutrients are fed to said tissue and from a bioreactor through a natural process of cell proliferation, thus obtaining cultured meat, which gains flavor depending on the ingredients added to it.
A process that ends up developing the meat just as if it were made inside the animal, although without its sacrifice or genetic modification, and which also has important characteristics. With just one biopsy, you can get meat from up to 50 pigs as well as be of great benefit in a cattle or avian environment.
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