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Microorganisms such as yeast, fungi or bacteria, are selected based on the type of molecule we want to produce (flavouring agents, vitamins, pigments, proteins, fats...)
We’ve been consuming fermentation products for millennia, think of beer, yoghurt, kimchi, bread and sauerkraut. Precision fermentation is nothing more than an extension of a safe and common technology which has already been used safely in our food systems for decades.
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Annually we raise and slaughter around 100 billion land animals and between 2 and 3 trillion marine animals. This has a big impact on our planet and environment:
Precision fermentation produces the same products at a fraction of the impact and soon at a fraction of the cost:
As the media dismisses cultivated meat as dead we ask whether this dip in excitement and investment isn’t part of a normal trajectory for all new technologies. Read more
Incumbent industries are almost always too slow to adapt to new technologies which leads to their downfall. This doesn"t have to be the case with our food system. Read more
In London, 2013, at a live packed press conference, Dutch scientist Mark Post unveiled the first lab-grown meat burger. The patty, prepared by a chef, was presented to food critics and an excited audience, all of whom were suitably impressed. Read more
It"s no secret that animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of climate change and environmental degradation. We can"t raise and slaughter 86 billion land animals and wrest 2–3 trillion marine animals out of the seas every year without suffering some consequences. Read more