Breakthroughs in non-bovine growth media may help bring cultivated meat onto parity with conventional meat products.
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Ask a cultivated meat supporter, and they’ll give you a litany of reasons the technology is superior to traditional slaughtered meat, decreased environmental impact and increased food safety chief among them. The only problem: Large scale production of cultivated turns out to be incredibly difficult and expensive — and that makes the price for cultivated meat untenably high.
“The cost of production is still relatively high with lab-grown meat,” said CEO of Icicle…