Cultivated meat flagged as threat to genetic IP

Although animal proteins cultivated outside the animal itself are far from being readily available to consumers, players in the animal ag industry are looking at the horizon and see a potential threat to the decades of investment in improved livestock genetics.

“What can potentially happen is [cultivated meat] companies can isolate cell lines from animals, which they then will use to grow their lab-grown meat products and basically piggyback on all of the…