Reza Ovissipour wants to make meat. Earth’s population is projected to reach 10 billion people by 2050. To feed everyone, “we have to increase our food production by one hundred percent and our meat production by seventy percent,” says Ovissipour, a food scientist at Virginia Tech. “Our current agricultural practices are not sustainable enough to provide that much food for people, so we need to find other ways to produce food.”
Does cultivated chicken pass SuperMeat’s blind taste test?
Cultivated meat has been put to a blind taste test and the results are in. Here’s what gastronomic experts thought when they sampled SuperMeat’s cultivated chicken alongside conventional meat.