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Is Cultivated Meat for Real?
Cultivated meat faces a wall of scientific skepticism, but investors haven’t been deterred. A decade in, how close are we to seeing it on our plates?
Wasted materials from contamination will need to be priced in to the total cost of the final product, meaning that maintaining sterility will be a major engineering focus of the industry as it matures. Looking back, there were periods of pessimism and missed milestones where many proclaimed the “death of clean tech.” In 2011, BP exited solar, saying it couldn’t “make any money,” despite being one of the technology’s champions in the previous decade. But once one accepts longer time scales for The Dream of cultivated meat, it might seem less unreasonable to bank on massive engineering accomplishments, the concurrent development of multiple supporting industries, and a restructuring of the global agricultural supply chain.
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