title: Cultured meat: every village its own factory?
abstract: Rising global demand for meat will result in increased environmental pollution, energy consumption, and animal suffering. Cultured meat, produced in an animal-cell cultivation process, is a technically feasible alternative lacking these disadvantages, provided that an animal-component-free growth medium can be developed. Small-scale production looks particularly promising, not only technologically but also for societal acceptance. Economic feasibility, however, emerges as the real obstacle.
authors.affiliation: Communication, Philosophy and Technology, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Cor
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van der Weele
authors.affiliation: Bioprocess Engineering, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: hans.tramper@wur.nl.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tramper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005524:Food Technology / Q000379:methods*; D008460:Meat