Animals can no longer be killed.
70 billion animals today kill 7 billion people for food. And by the year 2050, when there are already 9 billion people on the planet, the world may run into protein deficiency. It will become impossible to grow so much cattle and poultry.
According to the UN, livestock is one of the factors of global warming and environmental pollution.
An alternative to the challenges of the future was presented by the food company Just from San Francisco, reports the BBC. This is chicken meat grown from chicken feather cells. Enthusiasts even prepared nuggets from this meat for journalists. They said chicken is like chicken.
Nuggets “grew up” in two days in a bioreactor. To cells from chicken feather turned into meat, protein still came in handy. He became a medium for the division of "feather" cells.
Innovators insist their chicken is not the same as vegetable meat for vegetarians or other artificial surrogates. This is ordinary meat, just grown in the laboratory.
Whether this meat will be available for sale is yet to be decided by the American government. But the project already has investors, including those from Silicon Valley. The American billionaire Bill Gates and the British billionaire Richard Branson have already invested in the project. Among investors and the largest meat processor in America, Tyson Foods.
