Meat Versus Cultured Tissue

Meat Versus Cultured Tissue
We are writing regarding the article “Is the Future of Meat Animal-Free?” by Liz Specht published in the January 2018 issue of Food Technology.

Currently, research is ongoing to produce animal-sourced food without harvesting animals by culturing muscle tissue from stem cells in a liquid medium (Hocquette 2016). To be considered meat, these products must be comparable in composition and sensory characteristics to meat naturally derived from animals (Seman et…