cellular agriculture

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2025 by Isha Datar · across every show →

Everything said about cellular agriculture, oldest first

Feb 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Datar: Cellular agriculture lacks standardized cell lines common in biomedicine
“We don't have those standardized cells in cellular agriculture. So where one researcher in the biomedical space can just open up a catalog and say, hey, I need to order this, and this, You understand how they perform, and you just get to work on your work. The…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 11:50 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Datar: Less marketing distraction will yield better cell ag science over time
“I also think in the next five years, better science will happen because the distraction of marketing and comms is decreasing, and so all these little kind of news tidbits about what's going on that really, you know, they sound big when they come out, but did t…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 40:36 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Opinion
Datar: 'Cellular Agriculture' Is Preferable Because Meat Is Not a Sector
“Well, my favorite term is cellular agriculture because I don't think meat is a sector.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 4:41 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 negative
Insight
Datar: Biopharma lacks incentives to lower costs, but cell ag must
“Biopharma has set this precedent that this is what the price of things should be, and they have no incentive to bring the prices down. Cellular agriculture does have an incentive to bring the price down, and it must bring the price down.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 15:50 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Datar: Cultivated meat may fail while lab-grown milk and eggs succeed
“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…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 39:31 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Datar: Cellular agriculture research has boomed significantly since 2015
“There's institutes of cellular agriculture around the world, where in 2015 there was zero. There are hundreds of grad students working on cell ag research around the world, where in 2015 there was like two, you know, like I could count them on one hand.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 38:51 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 negative
Insight
Datar: Cultivated meat startups shouldn't attempt full vertical integration early on
“If we actually think about a world where food is grown from cells, we need a really robust, diverse kind of economy behind it with many different players and so on. We can't just come out of the gate vertically integrated like the meat industry today.”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 7:55 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
Feb 27, 2025 bullish
Insight
Datar: Cultivated meat factories should resemble food processing, not biopharma
“But I also think if we're willing to have that same disruptive paradigm shifting mentality, that maybe the manufacturer of this looks more like vitamin or food processing or those kind of other still factories, still produce stuff that you consume, but isn't t…”
Isha Datar Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 16:50 Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
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