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"The chef presents me with a nugget of raw meat, tinged yellowish gray, then
takes it back and drops it in a pan. “Today, you’re going to be having our
whole-muscle chicken filet,” Daniel Davila tells me, searing the morsel. He
lets it rest, chars some tomatoes and scallions, and throws together a
beurre-blanc sauce. “Kind of a classic,” Davila says.
Davila works for Upside Foods, a start-up disrupting the world of animal
proteins from its base in Berkeley, California. After a few minutes, he places
the dish before me. I inhale, smelling salt and sear. I cut the meat, the
serrations on the knife shredding it into strings. I take a piece and squish
it, observing it bounce back and dampen my hands. I put a small amount in my
mouth, chew carefully, and taste, well, not much. It tastes like chicken.
Is it chicken? It is chicken more than it is anything else. To be specific, it
is what happens when you take a chicken’s cells, place them in a vat filled
with a slurry of nutrients and amino acids, let them multiply, wash them, chill
them, shape them, and cook them. The companies that make this animal flesh call
it “cultivated” or “cultured” meat; the more common adjective outside the
industry is “lab grown.” (The cells that I ate came from eggs, not from birds,
by the way—so consider your next question answered.)
This kind of meat is the future, or at least part of the future. Within the
past decade, cultivated meat has gone from science-fictional to hyper-expensive
to market-ready, fueled by billions of dollars of start-up spending. Chicken
made by Upside Foods, which launched in 2015, is now available at the
Michelin-starred Bar Crenn in San Francisco, and will be headed to more
restaurants soon. Newfangled plant-based meat, cultivated meat’s cousin, has
already made it to the kitchen table. Beyond Burgers are available in thousands
of grocery stores. You can buy Impossible Whoppers at Burger King."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
