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‘You don’t need animals to make real meat’: the man who grows chicken in a lab | Veganism | The Guardian
‘Cultivated’ meat is safer, kinder, more sustainable – and coming to a pet shop near you, says Meatly’s CEO, Owen Ensor. How long till it’s ready for human consumption?
In a tiny office opposite the lab, Ensor – stumped by the coffee machine (he doesn’t drink it), slightly reticent about being the face of what he insists is absolutely a team effort, but otherwise warmly welcoming – patiently answers some silly questions. Ensor says the political environment SCiFi Foods faced in the US is tougher (Florida governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, promising to “save our beef” from the machinations of the “global elite”). “When I explain it’s the same nutritional parameters, but we’re not using steroids and hormones and antibiotics, and we don’t need to raise and kill any animals, it becomes a bit, like, why wouldn’t you?” Once production is up and running, Meatly plans to start a “demystifying process”, hoping to win consumers over.
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