Cultured meat needs a race to mission not a race to market

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Who: Dwayne Holmes, David Humbird, Jan Dutkiewicz, Yadira Tejeda-Saldana, Bre Duffy, Isha Datar

Published: October 18, 2022

Where: nature food

Key Takeaway: The burgeoning field of cultured meat is racing to achieve market access, but we must also focus on a higher, mission-based standard of transparency and collective processes.

Research Topics: other

Summary

Cultured meat has the potential to improve animal welfare while more sustainably, safely, and securely producing meat compared to current animal agriculture. High expectations for the industry’s success and the market opportunity have fuelled anticipation for a swift rollout to markets, creating a race-to-market atmosphere. Dwayne Holmes et. al discuss five key parameters representing minimal states of technological readiness that should be achieved before bringing products to market: 1) creating slaughter-free solutions, including supply chains, 2) collaboratively and transparently developing analytical capabilities and standards for assessing safety and nutrition, 3) proactively pursuing sustainability, 4) cooperatively assessing scalability, and 5) practicing open science to accelerate progress. The authors call for a race-to-mission and collective progress, instead of the current race-to-market mindset.

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Holmes, D., Humbird, D., Dutkiewicz, J., Tejeda-Saldana, Y., Duffy, B., & Datar, I. (2022). Cultured meat needs a race to mission not a race to market. Nature Food, 3(10), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00586-9

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