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Cultured Meat, Without the Slaughter, Is Slated to Get a Big Boost
May 27, 2022 - Gizmodo
A tidal wave of real, fake meat may soon be coming our way. Intentions to construct the world’s biggest facility for cultivating meat from animal cells were announced on Wednesday by San Francisco-based company, Good Meat.
The facility is slated to have ten, 250,000 liter “bioreactors”, or giant, metal vessels in which cells can be cultured and meat can grow. In other words: ten giant meat vats.
These bioreactors will theoretically be able to produce up to 30 million pounds of cultivated meat every year, according to the company. And Good Meat will initially be focusing this mass-production on chicken and beef.
But right now, Good Meat’s massive meat vats are just a plan. They’re looking to finalize their facility site within the next three months, and are considering locations in multiple states around the country (NC, PA, UT, TX, WI, and CO), a company representative told Gizmodo via email.
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