{"id":127391,"date":"2021-09-07T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-cultured-meat-factory-will-churn-out-5000-bioreactor-burgers-a-day"},"modified":"2021-09-07T22:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:24:06","slug":"new-cultured-meat-factory-will-churn-out-5000-bioreactor-burgers-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-cultured-meat-factory-will-churn-out-5000-bioreactor-burgers-a-day","title":{"rendered":"New Cultured Meat Factory Will Churn Out 5,000 Bioreactor Burgers a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8XUFrNQ7YSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter demonstrating that cultured meat can reach cost parity faster than the market anticipated, this production facility is the real game-changer,\u201d said Yaakov Nahmias, Future Meat Technologies founder and chief scientific officer, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/future-meat-technologies-launches-worlds-first-industrial-cultured-meat-production-facility-301317975.html\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThis facility demonstrates our proprietary media rejuvenation technology in scale, allowing us to reach production densities 10-times higher than the industrial standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cultured meat is made by extracting cells from animal tissue and giving them nutrients, oxygen, and moisture while keeping them at the same temperature they\u2019d be at inside an animal\u2019s body. The cells divide and multiply then start to mature, with muscle cells joining to create muscle fibers and fat cells producing lipids. The resulting nuggets of meat can be used to make processed products like burgers or sausages. Structured cuts of meat with blood vessels and connective tissue, like steak or chicken breast, require scaffolds, and researchers are <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/07\/12\/so-far-cultured-meat-has-been-burgers-the-next-big-challenge-is-animal-free-steaks\/\">creating these with biomaterials<\/a>, like cellulose from plants. Companies are working on several varieties of more elaborate cultured products, from <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/12\/09\/will-cultured-bacon-be-delicious-a-dutch-startup-is-developing-the-first-lab-grown-pork\/\">bacon<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2020\/09\/16\/this-startup-is-growing-sushi-grade-salmon-from-cells-in-a-lab\/\">salmon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-06-23\/meat-grown-in-bioreactors-is-coming-to-american-diners-next-year\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Future Meat aims to start offering its products in US restaurants by the end of next year\u2014but must get approval from the FDA first. On top of that approval, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/08\/31\/would-you-eat-meat-from-a-lab-consumers-arent-necessarily-sold-on-cultured-meat\/\">public opinion<\/a> is another hurdle the company and its competitors will need to clear before they see widespread success; for every person who\u2019s opposed to factory farming, there\u2019s a person who\u2019s squeamish about the idea of meat grown in a bioreactor, despite the avian (or bovine, or porcine) lives being spared. Getting these consumers to view cultured meat favorably will be a matter of education, taste\/texture as compared to the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/04\/19\/what-makes-the-impossible-burger-look-and-taste-like-real-beef\/\">real thing<\/a>,\u2019 and cost competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter demonstrating that cultured meat can reach cost parity faster than the market anticipated, this production facility is the real game-changer,\u201d said Yaakov Nahmias, Future Meat Technologies founder and chief scientific officer, in a press release. \u201cThis facility demonstrates our proprietary media rejuvenation technology in scale, allowing us to reach production densities 10-times higher than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}