Cultured Meat

How Torrey Hills Technologies Shaking Incubator is Helping for a Sustainable World

       According to Hamptons Creek, a Silicon Valley startup, working on cellular agriculture products, the production of meat and seafood around the globe will double to 1.2 trillion pounds by 2050 if we keep consuming at our current rate. However, our planet is not able to support the supplies that the animal production industry requires for example water, fertilizer, fuel, and pesticides. By 2050 Earth’s population will be approximately 9 billion and meat consumption is estimated to rise 70% in the next three decades – the solution must lie in technology – lab-grown meats can help offset the environmental damages for future generations.

A campaign such as Meatless Mondays, Be Vegetarian or Go Vegan have become more and more frequent and people are aware of meat nutrition and future consequences. Now there is a sustainable revolutionized food option: the clean meat industry where meat is made from cells instead of lives, or confined animals. All is possible, to produce milk without cows and nuggets without chickens. There are many startups working in this new industry in a job that is called digital biology or synthetic biology – it converts the genes of yeast cells in a vitro meat process to generate milk but with no cows.

Here is how

      The process starts taking some cells from the muscle of an animal with a small biopsy while they're under anesthesia. These cells are called “myosatellite” cells which are the stem cell of muscles and have the function to generate a new muscle tissue when the muscle becomes injured. Producing clean meat is also known as cultured meat, comes essentially from stem cells. The same thing that occurs inside an animal, the cells will proliferate when placed for growth. What they use to grow this meat is called a shaking incubator. When they are in action they make the whole process turn into future clean meat. All of this from a small sample cell that proliferates until there are trillions of cells, just from one sample it is possible to produce 800 million strands of muscles tissue and make around 80,000 quarter pounders. The clean meat is ready when all these fibers are layered together. It is possible to process using the same food methods, for example, a grinder to make ground beef. There are no antibiotics, genetic modification, environmental damages and animal slaughter which comes with traditional meat production. The cells are doing the same work that they would normally do inside the animals but with technology to help in favor of a better future for us.

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