The “cultivated meat” industry appears to be experiencing serious growing pains.
The sector that once had investors salivating now faces significant technological, financial, and legal challenges — as well as the ever-present fear that consumers just won’t bite.
‘The same people who are doomsaying it now were hyping it five years ago.’
While American players in the lab-grown meat market apparently prefer to suffer in silence — of the 20 startups Align contacted, none responded — we did find one British company forging ahead by targeting a considerably less picky demographic: dogs and cats.