INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Meatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine
method of meat production that theoretically has a far smaller carbon emissions footprint and is better for the environment than traditional
Now, as pork prices rise globally, Meatable becomes one of the first companies to publicly shift gears and turn its attention to the other
Meatable is also an early claimant to a commercially viable, patented process for manufacturing meat cells without the need to kill an
animal as a prerequisite for cell differentiation and growth.Other companies have relied on fetal bovine serum or Chinese hamster ovaries to
stimulate cell division and production, but Meatable says it has developed a process where it can sample tissue from an animal, revert that
tissue to a pluripotent stem cell, then culture that cell sample into muscle and fat to produce the pork products that palates around the
from the European Commission
Angel investors include Taavet Hinrikus, the chief executive and co-founder of TransferWise, and Albert Wenger, a managing partner at the
The small-scale bioreactor the company had initially targeted for development in 2021 will now be ready by 2020 and the company is hoping to
have an industry-scale plant online manufacturing thousands of kilograms of meat by 2025, according to De Nood.Industrial farming is
responsible for between 14% and 18% of the greenhouse gas emissions linked to global climate change and Meatable argues that cultured
(lab-grown) meat has the potential to use 96% less water and 99% less land than industrial farming
Powering facilities using renewable energy could further reduce emissions associated with meat production, according to Meatable.
