This has become controversial as it's derived from the blood of a cow foetus – meaning a pregnant mother needs to be slaughtered to make it. Karodia tells me her company's broth contains fetal bovine serum (FBS).
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It's full of a nutritious broth that contains all the ingredients that cells need to grow and grow. The biopsy is taken back to the lab where it's put into a bioreactor – a metal vat not unlike those beer is brewed in. The first step in making it is to take a small, peppercorn-sized biopsy from a cow – leaving the animal "up and running afterwards", Karodia notes. In other words, lab-grown meat is genetically indistinguishable from the real deal. They are also collectively receiving billions of dollars of investment, according to The Good Food Institute, an alternative protein think tank.Ĭultivated meat essentially means "replicating the same process you'd find inside of a cow, outside of the cow", says Karodia. Now, we're sitting at probably over 100 companies in the space." Between them, they're growing lamb, duck, beef, chicken, fish and more. And probably three to four years later, there was a handful of companies. "The first burger was made in the Netherlands in 2013. "So the industry is fairly new," says Tasneem Karodia, co-founder of Mzansi Meat Co, a South African cultivated meat firm.
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