HSI, CCMB join hands to develop lab-grown meat

The effort to develop clean meat has emerged due to the unsustaible methods of large-scale industrial animal agriculture. The current intensive practices neglect basic animal welfare, and consequently pose a threat to the environment and food security, it said. Clean meat production requires far less land and water than conventiol meat production and therefore alleviates repercussions of exponential climatic change. Clean meat technology obliterates the severe environmental damages resulting from poor waste magement prevalent in current farming practices. The technology does not require antibiotics, produces no bacterial contamition and ensures the welfare of animals.

“While technology exists to multiply literally any type of cell, including mammalian cells, the scaling up of the same in a economically affordable manner as a meat substitute remains a major challenge. There may also be cultural and social factors that will need to be addressed for this to be socially acceptable,” said CCMB Director Rakesh Mishra. (IANS)