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Sausage Grown from Cells Coming to Your Local Grocer

Wednesday, August 9, 2023Wednesday, August 9, 2023By Macie Jones
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Sausage Grown from Cells Coming to Your Local Grocer

We love innovation of all kinds at theSync, even food innovation.

Dutch company, Meatable, has announced plans to sell its lab-grown, cellular sausage in Singapore. This isn’t the first time we’ve reported on governments approving lab grown sausages.

Meatable is planning to bring its slaughter-free sausages to the Singaporean market next year. They also intend to sell them in the US after Washington State’s FDA approval, and US regulators approving cellular grown chicken.

Record Grown Sausage

Meatable has broken any previous cellular sausage growth records. They’re counting on their best-in-class, 8 days of growth to propel them to market leader. Washington State’s sausages are made from genetically engineered pigs sent to slaughter while these sausages are grown from the cell up.

Investors have taken notice. Meatable uses a patented stem cell technology called pluripotent stem cells to accelerate sausage growth. They recently raised $35 million to increase productivity. They’ll use this money to introduce cellular grown pork dumplings to the marketplace.

This latest investment round brings Meatable’s total investments to $95 million making them one of the more valuable food innovation startups.

Cell Sausage Safe, Unless It Isn’t

I go back to my original argument regarding this so-called food innovation.

We just don’t know enough about this technology.

For years, agribusinesses assured us GMO’d fruits and vegetables were safe for human consumption. That the foods grown from GMO seeds were the same. Decades later, we’re learning about the lack of nutrition GMO’d veggies bring to the table. We’ve also learned about increases in allergies, like gluten, people are experiencing because so much GMO product is in our diet.

Just because we can print sausage or grow chicken from stem cells, totally non-au naturel processes, doesn’t mean we should.

And I get it. Population growth and us trashing the environment have accelerated the need to find alternative proteins and explore different ways of making meat.

How about fixing the problems pushing us to these alternative paths instead of adding more problems?

Just because these solutions are easier doesn’t mean they are the healthiest ones.

-MJ