Many people want to know what is lab grown meat? Here’s the operative part. It is cultured meat that is produced in a bioreactor, most significantly without the slaughter of any animals. So that is what is the meat? How is it really produced? The animal stem cells are essentially used to create the meat.
A sample of the cell is taken to grow this meat in a lab. Chicken cells that are grown in bioreactors have so far only been approved for sale in Singapore. Singapore is the only country where lab-grown meat is actually out on sale. You can go to a restaurant or even buy it from a market.
How is lab-grown meat actually made? This is the other big question. Well, let me break it down into phases, phase 1 is the extraction of cells from the animal. So this is the first phase a simple surgical procedure is done by after which the cell is extracted.
The animal goes on to make a full recovery. The muscle cells are then multiplied. So it’s extracted in the first phase multiplied in the second phase by feeding them essentially amino acids component one and carbohydrates component two.
Now once the muscle fiber starts growing, the result is essentially lab-grown meat. In Phase Three, there is a tissue change induction, a process called tissue change induction which takes place in which you begin to grow different types of cells like fat and muscle for the meat.
Moving on, what is the difference between plant-based meat and lab-grown meat? No, it isn’t the same thing. Lab-grown meat is made from the painless extraction of animal cells. This is important here especially if you’re a vegetarian to note that this is still made from the extraction of animal cells as opposed to plant-based meat, which is made from plant sources such as soy or pea protein.
Plant-based meat is something that is already being made here in India and is available in our markets. Well, what do experts say about lab grown meat being environmentally friendly? It reduces carbon emissions. It uses less amount of land and water and also causes less pollution.
An interesting aspect which we’ll delve into is the fact that it may even use fewer antibiotics. On the other hand, farm animals are injected with a lot of antibiotics, which by virtue of non-vegetarians, eating this meat goes into their body which is causing antibiotic resistance.
