Cultivated Meat

“Well, my favorite term is cellular agriculture because I don't think meat is a sector.”

“We're in this kind of trough of disillusionment, as they call it in the hype cycle terminology, where people are like, what do you mean this thing will never happen, it's been way too long, when actually, it will happen, it's just, now we've kind of set oursel…”

“The media that you're feeding the cells is probably going to be the thing that costs the most. Same, same like with animals. It's like the feed that's the biggest contributor to the cost of a cow.”

“I would say tens of millions of dollars could make something that's really great right now that would be useful for the whole field. Hundreds of millions, we'd start getting into more, like, manufacturing, you know, in a, like, way that is more than, like, a c…”

“What's happening now is the companies are all building their own separate facilities. There's no standardization. If one works, great. If one doesn't work, like, no one would know why it doesn't work, and then it doesn't prevent the next person from spending t…”

“I don't always know if the approvals are like the most significant thing. Like to me, they kind of read like a investor milestone more than a, oh, this is just like the last stop before we blow our product up on the market kind of thing.”

“There's a big scientific process, like food science transformation that happens when you cook something. And cultivated meat, you don't know exactly how it might perform in a pan. You hope it's going to be exactly the same as the cells from an animal, but you …”

“Cellular agriculture as a concept is so much bigger than meat, and it's very possible that things like milk proteins or egg proteins or just ingredients in our food Are actually going to make a bigger difference for the climate and for nutrition and food and a…”

“They've reduced the costs, like, I guess I would say certainly at least 99.9% in the last decade. Probably closer to 99.99%.”

“Yeah, we're 10 years out.”

“You know, in some respects, I would argue that maybe it's even an easier mental move for folks than it is consuming soybean or wheat products that Taste like beef.”

“As long as they're willing to kind of stay in the path, you are going to see that cost curve come down. So it's only a matter of time before you see, you know, price parity kick in.”

“So there was a study that came out last year from a consultancy called CE Delft that looked at a few different scenarios for cost reduction and found a path towards getting in the sort of single dollar, dollars per kilogram range and that, that agrees with int…”

“In China's recent five-year strategy, they called out cultivated meat explicitly as something that, that is a priority area.”

“Cultivated meat is only available in Singapore at the moment but we know that that is working its way through regulatory assessment and food safety assessment in multiple other countries at present.”