Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Meat grown in a lab may once have seemed like something out of science fiction, but it could be on Australian menus within months. The food regulator has just approved cell-cultured meat for sale, declaring it safe to eat.

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00:00I always want to see what else we can do.

00:03This might look like a high-end restaurant dish, but its origins are surprising.

00:09The meat didn't come from an animal, it was grown in a factory.

00:13We can grow meat from any animal.

00:16First, cells from the animal are put in a giant tank like this,

00:20and then multiplied to form a paste, which is then turned into a mince or pate.

00:25What we do is we put the cells in a nutrient broth.

00:28So there's amino acids, sugars,

00:31and that is what is actually allowing the cells to grow

00:34in a way that's very similar to what you'd see in a brewery.

00:37Professor Dora Marinova from Curtin University says consumers will want to know

00:41what the health and environmental impacts of lab-grown meat are.

00:45We know that it requires much less land,

00:49but there are some questions asked around the use of energy

00:53because it's quite an energy-intensive process.

00:56Another question is the viability of the business model,

00:59according to Professor Paul Wood.

01:01I think the biggest issue is cost and scale.

01:04This is an expensive product to make.

01:06You need special equipment, you need expensive media.

01:10The food safety approval might seem like the biggest hurdle for the product in Australia,

01:15but the bigger question is will consumers want to buy it?

01:19Would you try lab-grown meat?

01:21Yes, I would.

01:22As long as there's controls in place to make sure that the lab-grown meat's safe, why not?

01:27Yeah, it's a bit weird.

01:28Like, meat's meat, why is it grown in the lab?

01:30Yeah, I think I'd want to know more before I attempt it.

01:33Lab-to-plate could be on the menu within months.

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