Among those featured at the UK Israel Business (UKIB) Innovate ’19 conference was one biotech company on the brink of providing affordable lab-grown meat
June 27, 2019 11:18
The future of the planet may depend on us giving up meat – but an Israeli start-up is working night and day so that we never have to say goodbye to mum’s chicken soup.
Among the firms featured at Wednesday’s UK Israel Business (UKIB) Innovate ’19 conference was Future Meat Technologies, which “aims to transform global meat production” by artificially creating fat and muscle cells in a lab.
The firm’s owner, Professor Yaakov Nahmias, told the audience: “We have reached our capacity for food production. For every 10,000 vegetarians, we have half a million people become carnivores in India and China.
“There is just one major problem [with meat substitutes]: they don’t smell like meat and they don’t taste like meat.”
