Here comes pet food with lab grown meat

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Meet the company making mouse meat cat treats without harming animals

Because Animals believes the $90 billion pet food industry will embrace "clean meat," made from cultured cells in a lab not from livestock.

www.cnbc.com

Pet Food Startup to Debut Foods Made with Clean Mouse Meat

Because Animals will introduce its clean meat line of pet foods in early 2020 with a cat treat made from cell-based mice meat.

www.petproductnews.com

Because Animals Inc, a pet nutrition startup, is introducing a clean meat pet food made from meat grown without the animal. The company will debut its clean meat line of pet foods in early 2020 with a cat treat made from mice, the ancestral diet of the cat. The meat will be cultured, without slaughtering any animals, said company officials.

Clean or cell-based meat is meat grown using biotechnology, without raising or slaughtering animals. It has the same nutritional value and composition as animal-based meat, officials said.

I looked at the Because Animals web site. There are no pet food products available yet.

 

[Caspers Human]

I wonder... Does it taste like real mouse meat?

 

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Pre-ordering is now available for the cat treats.

According to this, the meat is made from "harvesting cells from a real animal. In this case, a mouse, a cat’s native protein source. (According to the company, mice are not harmed as a result of the process.) Those cells are fed a nutrient-rich serum while in a bioreactor, and in a matter of weeks, you have real meat, sans the slaughter."

 

[Maurey]

I’m curious what serum they use. If it’s FBS (foetal bovine serum), which a common media, animal slaughter is still involved in the process