{"id":8725,"date":"2022-07-07T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chabadoncampus.nl\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2022-07-07T07:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T07:47:17","slug":"lab-grown-meat-kosher-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chabadoncampus.nl\/en\/lab-grown-meat-kosher-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown meat \u2013 a kosher struggle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Imagine the world without slaughter, without huge industrial kettle farms. It sounds very appealing, does not it? Would it mean that all the world would turn into veganism? That could be the case, especially with all the delicious meat replacements that we can find on the market these days. However, there is also something else that we can do. Something else, that many scientists are working on, and it gained popularity several years ago to the extent that there are many startups around the world working on how to popularize it. What I would like to reflect on today is cultured meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The term \u201ccultured meat\u201d refers to meat that is produced by in vitro cell cultures of animal cells. Although the idea of lab-grown meat, as we may call it, sounds very progressive, it is a part of cellular agriculture which has been known for a while already. Cellular agriculture focuses on the production of agricultural products from cell cultures employing tissue engineering, biotechnology, molecular biology and synthetic biology. One of the products of that is vastly used in the world and is obtained with the use of cellular agriculture methods is insulin (produced since the early 20th<\/sup> century).<\/p>\n\n\n\n How is cultured meat grown? It all starts with extracting cells from a living animal. The procedure is of a mild character and does not cause much discomfort to the animal. Then, those cells that were taken are placed in an environment enriched with nutrients. This causes the cells to multiply, and make the sinews of real meat. Later, those sinews are used to create meat cuts of choice. As it can be imagined, this kind of meat is free of antibiotics (as it’s grown in a sterile environment). However, it might still contain some amounts of growth hormones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n