Clean Meat

Abstract

This chapter presents the production of real animal meat, which is grown outside of an animal. Starting cells are grown to meat products with the aid of tissue engineering techniques, a process with many names: “Lab meat,” “in vitro meat,” “cultured meat,” or “clean meat.” The chapter gives an overview of the technology and—maybe even more interesting for many readers—shows who were and who are the major players behind clean meat, with many well-known persons among them. Finally, the chapter shows in which ways clean meat could outperform conventional animal-derived meat and so overcome the obstacles of little consumer acceptance, which can be expected initially.