If I told you that the chicken who made your chicken nuggets was still alive. What would you do? Would you reject that meaty treat? Or would you just carry on eating?
Well, due to an experiment undertaken in San Francisco chickens might not have to give up their lives for any chicken produce soon. The food company, known as Just, has developed a cellular agricultural project which makes chicken nuggets. But, this produce must not be confused with 'Meat-free' or 'Meat substitute'! This is actual meat which have been grown in-Vito from a single cell inside of a laboratory. It is not currently commercially available to the general public. Yet, could you imagine the outcomes which could come from this. Overcoming ethics concerns from meat as you would not be killing the animals (the main reason for the project). As well as protecting the environment from the industrial's degradation of factory farming. The United Nations records raising animals to be one of the major sources of global warming (As well as air and water pollution). But by raising a single cell, not much methane and Carbon dioxide would be produce.
Additionally, this way of producing meat could help provide enough food for the population. Currently, there are 70 million animals are sent to slaughter for around 7 billion people. But that's only going to get bigger. Global demand for meat products are set to rise considerately because people are moving out of poverty. Some estimate the global demands could double! Which means by the year 2050, when the world hits 9 billion people, the meat resources will struggle to meet demand. Not know about you reading this, but meat is my favourite part of a meal... I don't want to go without.
Although, there will be some minor bumps to this development. The one which comes to mind is what will have to say the packaging. Is laboratory meat going to need a different term?
I guess we will have to wait to see.
The BBC News page reported that the laboratory can develop enough chicken to make chicken nuggets within 2 days in their bioreactor. This would be by using a protein which encourages the chicken cell to multiply. Then a scaffold is used to give the structure to the product. After, a culture/growth median is used to aid the development process by providing nutrients. BBC reports were even given the opportunity to taste the new chicken nuggets. The reporter confirmed that the result of the taste test was impressive. The skin was crispy and the meat was flavourful. However, they did note that the inside was softer than normal. These critics also deemed these chicken nuggets as 'clean' and ''Synthetic'.
It's not just chicken which could be made this way. The Just Food Company say they can make produce such as; eggs, ice cream or butter from plants. Along with any other meat produce from the certain animal cell. The pioneer of this new science referred as cellular agriculture is Mark Post. His project created the first laboratory grown hamburger. It was grilled in 2013 and fetched an outstanding £228,000 ($300,000). Although, none of these ideas have gone commercially. Mark Post still believes that his hamburgers could get down to £7.58 ($10) if they were mass produced. Personally, I don't think that a bad price. It's currently not far from some prices I've seen within restaurants (Better in some cases!).
So on a day such as National Food Day, it's comforting to know that we won't be seeing the last of our favourite dishes. Though they might have new source of production.
If you want to read more from the source I used Click Here
Well, due to an experiment undertaken in San Francisco chickens might not have to give up their lives for any chicken produce soon. The food company, known as Just, has developed a cellular agricultural project which makes chicken nuggets. But, this produce must not be confused with 'Meat-free' or 'Meat substitute'! This is actual meat which have been grown in-Vito from a single cell inside of a laboratory. It is not currently commercially available to the general public. Yet, could you imagine the outcomes which could come from this. Overcoming ethics concerns from meat as you would not be killing the animals (the main reason for the project). As well as protecting the environment from the industrial's degradation of factory farming. The United Nations records raising animals to be one of the major sources of global warming (As well as air and water pollution). But by raising a single cell, not much methane and Carbon dioxide would be produce.
Additionally, this way of producing meat could help provide enough food for the population. Currently, there are 70 million animals are sent to slaughter for around 7 billion people. But that's only going to get bigger. Global demand for meat products are set to rise considerately because people are moving out of poverty. Some estimate the global demands could double! Which means by the year 2050, when the world hits 9 billion people, the meat resources will struggle to meet demand. Not know about you reading this, but meat is my favourite part of a meal... I don't want to go without.
Although, there will be some minor bumps to this development. The one which comes to mind is what will have to say the packaging. Is laboratory meat going to need a different term?
I guess we will have to wait to see.
The BBC News page reported that the laboratory can develop enough chicken to make chicken nuggets within 2 days in their bioreactor. This would be by using a protein which encourages the chicken cell to multiply. Then a scaffold is used to give the structure to the product. After, a culture/growth median is used to aid the development process by providing nutrients. BBC reports were even given the opportunity to taste the new chicken nuggets. The reporter confirmed that the result of the taste test was impressive. The skin was crispy and the meat was flavourful. However, they did note that the inside was softer than normal. These critics also deemed these chicken nuggets as 'clean' and ''Synthetic'.
It's not just chicken which could be made this way. The Just Food Company say they can make produce such as; eggs, ice cream or butter from plants. Along with any other meat produce from the certain animal cell. The pioneer of this new science referred as cellular agriculture is Mark Post. His project created the first laboratory grown hamburger. It was grilled in 2013 and fetched an outstanding £228,000 ($300,000). Although, none of these ideas have gone commercially. Mark Post still believes that his hamburgers could get down to £7.58 ($10) if they were mass produced. Personally, I don't think that a bad price. It's currently not far from some prices I've seen within restaurants (Better in some cases!).
So on a day such as National Food Day, it's comforting to know that we won't be seeing the last of our favourite dishes. Though they might have new source of production.
If you want to read more from the source I used Click Here
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