CELLULAR MEAT

CELLULAR AGRICULTURE

CELLULAR MEAT

University Park, Pennsylvania December 2018

The Mid Atlantic Beef & Dairy Farmer Newspaper, December 25,

2018, announced a Penn State Team of the College of Agricultural

Sciences, all livestock experts and food sciences, are focused on

Cellular Agriculture, which has grown from an “ internet curiosity “

to a serious issue and have the US Food & Drug and US Department

of Agriculture sharing oversight.

Cultured Meat is produced by “ in vitro “ cultivation of animal cells

and not from slaughtered animals. “ In Vitro “ is a biological process

that happens in a laboratory vessel rather than a living organism.

The studies talk about tissue engineering, culturing loose myosatellite

calls on a substrate to produce meat by harvesting mature mussel cells

after differentiation to process into various meat product.

Did you ever know such was going on at Penn State ?

This is cellular agriculture. The concept was made popular by Jason

Matheny in early 2000's in his book “ New Harvest”. So it's not new.

The internet has the full story, going first to the Penn State Extension,

https:/extension.psu.edu/cell-culture-technology-and-potential-impacts-on

-livestock-production. Please do not think you can get meat out of your

cell phone, yet.

I sure did not know about lab grown meats and thought it interesting

enough to put forward.

Abstract: Mid-Atlantic Beef & Dairy Farmer, December 25, 2018.