{"id":36045,"date":"2023-06-25T03:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=36045"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:09:10","slug":"explained-what-is-lab-grown-meat-and-what-did-the-us-recently-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/explained-what-is-lab-grown-meat-and-what-did-the-us-recently-approve\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Lab-Grown Meat and What Did the U.S. Recently Approve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Cell-Cultivated Meat?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Types of Cell-Cultivated Meat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Need to Create Cell-Cultivated Meat?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenges Involved with Cell-Cultivated Meat\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two U.S. two companies, Good Meat and Upside Foods, have received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to make and sell their cell-cultivated chicken.<\/li>\n<li>The first country to approve the sale of alternative meat was Singapore in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What is Cell-Cultivated Meat?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To make cell-cultivated meat, these two companies isolate the cells that make up this meat (the meat that we consume).<\/li>\n<li>They then put the isolated cells in a setting where they have all the resources they need to grow and make more copies of themselves.<\/li>\n<li>These resources are typically nutrients, fats, carbohydrates, amino acids, the right temperature, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018setting\u2019 in which this process transpires is often a bioreactor (also known as a \u2018<strong>cultivator<\/strong>\u2019).<\/li>\n<li>This cultivator is a sensor-fit device \u2013 like a container \u2013 that has been designed to support a particular biological environment.\n<ul>\n<li>Because of the techniques involved, producing meat in this way is also called <strong>cellular agriculture<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once these cells have become sufficiently large in number, they resemble a mass of minced meat.<\/li>\n<li>They are collected and then processed, with additives to improve their texture and\/or appearance, and are destined for various recipes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Types of Cell-Cultivated Meat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After pork, chicken is the second most widely consumed meat in the world, according to the <strong>U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Good Meat and Upside have thus far focused on chicken, and plan to expand their offerings to include other meats in future.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers are also developing cell-cultivated versions of sea bass, tuna, shrimp, and pork.<\/li>\n<li>The consulting firm McKinsey has estimated that the <strong>global alternative meat market could reach $20-25 billion in sales by 2030<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What is the Need to Create Cell-Cultivated Meat?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The proponents of cell-cultivated meat have advanced the following arguments in favour of developing lab-grown meat \u2013\n<ul>\n<li>Emissions, Land Use, Prevention of Animal Slaughter, Food Security, and Customisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The FAO has estimated that global <strong>livestock is responsible for 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Of this, the production of beef as a commodity accounted for 41%, whereas chicken meat and eggs accounted for 8%.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, the 2021 report estimated that <strong>lab-cultivated meat would use 63% less land in the case of chicken and 72% in the case of pork<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Climate scientists have also asked people \u2013 especially in richer countries \u2013 to reduce their meat consumption, but carnivorous diets remain popular, in turn <strong>maintaining lab-grown meat as a promising alternative<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Its proponents have also advanced such meat as a way to meet the world\u2019s nutritional security needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finally, some experts have said that <strong>lab-grown meat can be customised to be healthier than their animal counterpart<\/strong>, such as being designed to contain less fat, thus contributing to public health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Challenges Involved with Cell-Cultivated Meat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Consumer Acceptance \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Perfectly substituting animal meat with alternative meat requires the latter to match the former\u2019s taste, texture, and appearance, and cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Cost \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The cost of cell-cultivated meat is expected to remain high in the near future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resources \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0For the cellular cultivation process, researchers require \u2013\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0high quality cells to begin with;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0a suitable growth-medium in which the cells can be cultured,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0plus other resources required to maintain the quality of the final product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Criticism \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent study found that if cell cultivation requires a \u201chighly refined growth medium\u201d, akin to that used in in the pharmaceutical industry, then the \u201cenvironmental impact of near-term [cell-cultivated meat] production is likely to be orders of magnitude higher than median beef production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Does the meat industry contribute to global warming?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to the UN&#8217;s Food and Agricultural Organization, about 14% of all emissions come from meat and dairy production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is plant-based meat made of?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It depends on the brand, but most plant-based meats are made from pea or soy protein, a type of fat, and some sort of binder, but they may also contain natural and artificial flavours to make the product taste more like meat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/lab-grown-meat-upside-good-meat-usda-fda-explained\/article67001226.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | What is lab-grown meat and what did the U.S. recently approve?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab grown meat is developed from animal cells and grown in massive 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