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Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch
A store in Singapore is selling lab-grown chicken, but it only contains 3 percent animal cells.
The costs of brewing animal cells are simply so high that the quickest way to get something to market that even approaches reasonably priced, is to make up a substantial portion with plants. Startups that are pushing ahead with much higher cell ratios will say that it’s evidence that the real benefits of going cultivated only kick in when you’re talking about products that are 60, 70, 80 percent animal. Launching in a retail store gives Good Meat a positive story to sell to investors, who will hopefully stump up the injection of cash that the industry needs to keep grinding forward.
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