Artificial meat could reach restaurants in 3 years

A Dutch company that introduced the first burger with laboratory-produced meat five years ago said Tuesday that it had received funds to continue to create and sell artificial meat to restaurants starting in 2021. [19459003MosaMeatHesaidheraised75millioneuros($88million)mainlyfromMVenturesandBellFoodGroupMVenturesisaninvestmentsubsidiaryoftheGermanpharmaceuticalcompanyMerckKGaABellFoodisameat-processingcompanybasedinSwitzerland

Glass Wall Syndicate, one of the smaller investors, supports several companies looking for artificial meat or derivative products aimed at consumers concerned about water. ;environment. the treatment of animals and conditions in slaughterhouses.

Meuse Meat, based in Maastricht, which has already received a million euros from Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, said it was planning to sell its first products – probably ground beef for hamburgers – in 2021.

The goal is to reach an industrial level production about 2 or 3 years later, and that a typical hamburger ride costs about a dollar

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Environmentalists have warned that the growing appetite for meat around the world , especially in emerging economy countries Like China, it is not sustainable because beef, pork and chicken need a lot of resources rather than vegetable protein. Cows in particular also produce large amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

The big challenge is to make artificial meat look, smell and taste like real meat. Mosa Meat uses a small sample of cells taken from a live animal and reproduces them to create large amounts of artificial flesh.