What is artificial meat?
This is a product that is grown in laboratory conditions in the form of a culture.
Most often, vegetable meat is made usingExtrusion is a method of making food products in which the feedstock is compressed, kneaded and heated to 100 ° C by friction. This avoids chemical treatment.
The basis for artificial meat isvegetable protein: soy or legumes. In order for the surrogate to resemble real meat, vegetable fats are added there, as well as juices of red vegetables, such as beets, which as a result will look like blood.
Artificial meat building elements
How is the artificial meat market developing around the world?
Last year was a real breakthrough for meat substitutes: one of the largest manufacturers, the American Beyond Meat, entered the first public sale of shares with record figures.
As calculated by the largest Swiss financialholding UBS, by 2030 the vegetable protein market in the United States alone will grow from $ 4.6 billion to $ 85 billion. The fact is that earlier this product was assessed as a niche for vegans and other eco-activists, but it turned out to be a rather popular alternative in the eyes of the mass consumer.
The first artificial meat burger made in 2013
In addition, a big boost to productionbecame the coronavirus pandemic. The fact is that the production of artificial meat is more sterile than its natural counterpart. Against the backdrop of a massive refusal of meat products, the Beyond Meat market has grown significantly and strengthened its position.
How are things in Russia?
At the end of 2019, they grew in Russiaartificial meat. The development was carried out by the Ochakovsky Food Ingredients Plant. The resulting 40 grams of beef from a Petri dish were valued by experimenters at 900 thousand rubles. They promise to reduce the cost of production so that lab-grown beef will appear in stores by 2023.
In Russia, you can try plant-based meat in the TGI Friday’s, Pizza Hut and Teremok chains. You can also buy the semi-finished product in food stores: “Azbuka Vkusa”, “Globus”, “Vkusville”.
Fast food chains regularly introduceartificial meat or its alternatives to your list of dishes. For example, today, July 16, it became known that IKEA will begin selling plant-based meatballs similar to meat in Russia. The company said that the product will not be made from artificial meat, but from a mixture of vegetables: pea protein, oats, apples and potatoes.
In addition, KFC planned to startproduction of artificial meat nuggets together with the biotechnological laboratory 3D Bioprinting Solutions, which was founded by the medical company Invitro. The surrogate will be meat produced using a bioprinter.
Why do people eat artificial meat?
One of the main reasons to stop consuming natural meat is the amount of emissions that remain from production.
Beyond Meat conducted researchtogether with the Center for Resilient Systems at the University of Michigan and concluded that producing one plant-based burger generates 90% less greenhouse gases, requires 45% less energy, 99% less water and 93% less land than a pound of American beef.
According to FAIRR, which brings together investors inlivestock industry, on average, more than 70 billion animals are sent to agricultural enterprises for slaughter annually. Agriculture accounts for 40% of land use, 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and 70% of fresh water consumption.
- 1 kg beef = 27 kg CO2 per year
- 1 kg of pork = 12 kg
- 1 kg of chicken = 7 kg.
At the moment, fully switch to a surrogatemany are not allowed by the price: such an ecological hamburger will cost six times more than usual. However, with an increase in the number of industries, as well as with an increase in consumption of a meat analogue, the price of a product will fall.
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