Lab-grown FrankenFish Sashimi Is Nearly Ready For The Table — Will You Eat It?
If you eat farmed fish now then you’ve nothing to lose
In a mere five years, lab-grown salmon will be on the sushi conveyer-belt, at least if a number of startups have their way. Well, they will have their way. Like the coronavirus vaccine, it is only a matter of time.
In fact, Finless Foods was hoping to bring its cell-based bluefin tuna to market by the end of 2019. Although it hasn’t entirely made it, it is very close and has served small select audiences its early production lab-grown shrimp.
WildType, a startup making lab-grown salmon, has opened up a pre-order list for select chefs. Although the company is as much as five years out from commercial production, according to founders the company is looking to partner with chefs who want to incorporate WildType’s sushi-grade salmon product into their menus.
Could these lab-based meal creations be better for us than the real thing, and would you eat it? You might be surprised.
Lab-fish is expensive, but wild fish are becoming more expensive
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