Quite a bit of criticism in this review of the "alternative protein" industry: plant-based imitations, cellular agriculture (e.g. lab meat), mycoproteins, insects, precision fermentation, algae.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"There have now been several reports from biotechnology experts that have questioned the optimism of @GoodFoodInst for [cellular agriculture]"
Relates to the costs of culture media, downstream processing, formulation, operation at pharmaceutical quality to prevent contamination.
Relates to the costs of culture media, downstream processing, formulation, operation at pharmaceutical quality to prevent contamination.
"The procedures to make plant-based food are sometimes so extensive that the final product would fall under the #ultraprocessed food (UPF) category, the same category in which products that we know as ‘junk food’ already exist"
"When it comes to the health and environmental assessment of such products, it should be considered that the UPFs are often produced by the large transnational corporations, such as @BeyondMeat & @ImpossibleFoods, in the case of meat alternatives"
"For those products seeking to compete against animal-based products, the cost of goods, nutritional profile & substantiating sustainable claims will be the major challenges. For totally new products based on insect proteins & cultured cells, consumer acceptance is also an issue"
"The need for significantly more protein to feed the expanding world population will remain the major driver for innovation in protein production, but we need to remember almost all of this population growth will be in the developing world"
"The price of these novel products and issues with food distribution will be major challenges in developing nations"
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