💡 "The first lab-grown burger, created in 2013, cost €250,000 to produce. Today, the same patty costs less than €10."
How often do you eat meat? Have you ever tried to reduce your consumption?
Would you eat meat grown in a laboratory if it tasted identical to the real thing?
Do you think the way we currently produce food is sustainable? Why?
Should governments intervene in people’s diets for environmental reasons?
What do you think is the biggest challenge in changing the world’s eating habits?
A close-up of a burger with a beef patty and melting cheese
A herd of cows grazing in a green field — the conventional source of meat that cultivated protein hopes to replace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO9SS1NS6MM
WIRED — "Inside the Quest to Make Lab Grown Meat" (≈7 minutes).
✍️ Open Cloze — Fill in the gaps with ONE word only (from the video / industry reports)
The process of cultivating meat begins (1) _ _ _ _ _ extracting stem cells from a small sample of animal tissue. These cells are then placed in a bioreactor, a controlled environment that mimics the conditions (2) _ _ _ _ _ an animal's body. By providing the cells (3) _ _ _ _ _ the necessary nutrients and growth factors, engineers can guide the cells to (4) _ _ _ _ _ into muscle or fat tissues, eventually forming real meat.
The technology offers a multitude of benefits (5) _ _ _ _ _ conventional meat production. It significantly reduces the environmental impact, requiring less land, water, and energy. Additionally, it eliminates the need (6) _ _ _ _ _ slaughter, addressing significant animal welfare concerns. Furthermore, lab-grown meat can be produced (7) _ _ _ _ _ the use of antibiotics, addressing the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
However, scaling up cultivated meat (8) _ _ _ _ _ several phases. To produce just one percent of the global meat market, the industry would need approximately 220 to 440 million litres of bioreactor capacity. The entire biopharmaceutical industry currently has only a tiny (9) _ _ _ _ _ of that. Basically, we need to create entirely new infrastructure (10) _ _ _ _ _ massive factories filled with bioreactors.
