Elliot Swartz

Real-world production data from Czech startup Bene Meat's small-scale production facility shows cultivated meat's environmental impacts Cultivated meat had a lower land use than conventional production & a competitive carbon footprint with chicken and pork:

Being competitive with chicken on carbon footprint today is a very good sign. The more renewables on the grid, the bigger the delta will get. Land use is dependent on how media inputs are sourced, and water is also dependent on media input sourcing and how recycling is handled at the facility. Lots of opportunities to optimize as larger facilities are built out

@elliotswartz Thanks! The gains are not that huge 😬. Should they grow with bigger scale and optimized processes?

@fordhsmith Indeed, this is the first study from a real-world facility. Other studies were theoretical models, some well-informed and others entirely wrong. I suspect we'll see data points aggregate around these values over time as new studies from other facilities are performed.

@elliotswartz Really interesting to see real production data backing this up, lower land use with a competitive footprint could be a big shift for how we think about future food systems 🌱

Open-access paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Very weird that people aren't more excited about being able to produce infinite salmon, free of mercury & parasites, all from a single sample of cells, without ever having to wild catch or factory farm another fish again: fastcompany.com/91513827/i-ate…

JBS opens $37M R&D and innovation center in Brazil focused on nutritionally and functionally optimized protein sources for the future. Cultivated meat is one of the verticals: greenqueen.com.hk/jbs-superprote…

When we can create something more efficiently with technology, the old thing eventually goes away Same thing happened in the early 1900s with "artificial ice" Same thing will happen with industrial meat production

Study here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In the second study of its kind, cultivated pork was again found to have higher protein digestibility and conversion into free amino acids compared to conventional pork. Whether this is due to the differences in sample structure is to be determined. The overall protein content was lower in the cultivated sample, though, which is consistent with trends from nutritional data found in regulatory approvals. This may be related to the lack of or shorter differentiation/maturation time in current cultivated meat production processes. Overall, the (still limited) data suggest cultivated meat may have advantages when it comes to protein digestibility, and there are opportunities to further increase and tune nutritional content through feeding or differentiation strategies.

In blind taste tests, @AlephFarms' cultivated beef was indistinguishable from conventional beef on taste/texture This is solid evidence for the hypothesis of near-term market success of cultivated meat: the cells carry the taste & we already have good methods to make textured plant proteins. Mix those two together, and you get products that people will enjoy. greenqueen.com.hk/aleph-farms-cu…

@scotbryson See posts from our APAC affiliate: linkedin.com/posts/gfi-apac… and coverage in LA Times: latimes.com/opinion/story/… We'll also have updated patent numbers in our forthcoming state of the industry report

@elliotswartz I'm curious on the status update from this! Have you seen anything again in this area?

Our new webpage serves as a centralized resource for tracking where cultivated meat can be sold around the world. Check it out: gfi.org/resource/where…

Coverage of our modeling work on valorizing lactic acid from spent cell culture media & other opportunities to use spent media as a feedstock for fermentation or explore other recycling strategies to promote circularity & improve economics in cultivated meat: insights.figlobal.com/upcycling/scie…

China spends 2x the agricultural R&D as the U.S., and Chinese Universities have filed more patents in cultivated meat than the U.S. and Europe combined Tick tock ⏲️ latimes.com/opinion/story/…

These results are based on a recent study in Nature Food. The paper is open-access: nature.com/articles/s4301…

In just the last 20 years, beef production destroyed global forests the size of California, mostly in the tropics Through tree loss alone (not including methane or feed crop production), this caused 3x the annual CO2 emissions of the US It's the cow, not the how

The @washingtonpost Editorial Board calls out the states that are banning (permanently or temporarily) the sale of cultivated meat under false safety concerns to disguise the nanny-state actions led by the cattle lobby that are actually driving policy washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

"We respect free markets & recognize that cultivated meat products are approved and inspected by the same federal agencies that regulate conventional meat", so we'll ban cultivated meat for 5 years Very logical stance from S. Dakota politicians greenqueen.com.hk/south-dakota-l…