WATCH: SuperMeat CEO on cultivated meat metrics: ‘We have a trajectory to cost parity, and I'm not just talking about beef, I'm talking about chicken…’

By Elaine Watson

01-Dec-2022 Last updated on 01-Dec-2022 at 17:31 GMT

What’s the most efficient way to make meat, outside of an animal, at scale? Startups in the nascent cultivated meat space are deploying multiple approaches from hybrid strategies combining cell biomass and plant-based protein, to tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting. FoodNavigator-USA visited Rehovot, Israel, to find out how SuperMeat is doing it.

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