Products
Beef
Mark Post, the Chief Office Professor of MosaMeat, and his team was the first ever to produce a cultured meat hamburger and the product was revealed during a press conference at London in 2013. This burger was the first to be harvested straight from cow cells and is a revolutionary step forward in the production of cultured meats becoming a regular item seen on every grocery store shelf. MosaMeat is a startup that strives to build off of the technological innovations used to make their first hamburger and create the first relatively inexpensive cultured beef seen in stores. Their goal is to bring their hamburgers to plates across the planet by commercializing and mass producing cultured meat.[1]
Creating the first burger used methods of muscle cell tissue culture which costed about $284,587 to produce because of the scale of skilled technicians doing very timely work and the use of expensive lab supplies.[2]
Chicken
JUST Meat is a company that has developed an animal-free and harmless method to culture chicken meat from a single chicken feather. Their goal is provide a solution to the increasing demand of meat and seafood and the reality that consumers are not willing to substitute meat for plant-based alternatives. JUST Meat is a company that cultures meat in a non-invasive way with the intention of producing on a commercial scale.[3]
Fish
The production of the world's first ever clean fish to be eaten was created by Finless Foods, a startup that has produced bluefin tuna. Finless Foods has sought a sustainable way to address the problems associated with global climate change, ocean pollution, and fish farming.Their goal is to supply consumers with affordable fish that avoids mercury, plastic, and antibiotic contaminants that are predominant in fisheries; and with a new donation of $3.5 million dollars dedicated towards research, they are becoming ever so close to producing this tuna on a larger, more efficient scale. Currently, Finless Foods is working on bringing their cellular cultured tuna to the markets by the end of 2019.[4]
