{"id":164825,"date":"2023-05-31T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/startups-serve-worlds-first-lab-grown-fish-filets"},"modified":"2023-05-31T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:23:36","slug":"startups-serve-worlds-first-lab-grown-fish-filets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/startups-serve-worlds-first-lab-grown-fish-filets","title":{"rendered":"Startups serve \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d lab-grown fish filets"},"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\/1U3tlJElphE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A pair of food tech startups have teamed up to create what they say are the world\u2019s first lab-grown fish filets \u2014 and they used a 3D printer to serve them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Demand for seafood is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-25516-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly double<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/future-foods-2050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2050<\/a> due to a growing population and increasing incomes, but overfishing, climate change, ocean pollution, and other factors pressure the seafood industry\u2019s ability to satisfy the world\u2019s hunger for fish.<\/p>\n<p>Even if industry can source all the seafood we need from the ocean and fish farms, current fishing practices can harm the environment, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22335364\/climate-change-ocean-fishing-trawling-shrimp-carbon-footprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">greenhouse gasses<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/ghost-nets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marine ecosystem destruction<\/a>, problems only likely to increase as the industry grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of food tech startups have teamed up to create what they say are the world\u2019s first lab-grown fish filets \u2014 and they used a 3D printer to serve them. The challenge: Demand for seafood is expected to nearly double by 2050 due to a growing population and increasing incomes, but overfishing, climate change, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164825","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}