Africa’s first cultivated beef burger was unveiled at an event in Cape Town earlier this week and its creators say it’s only the beginning.
Two years is a long time to wait for a beef burger. But, for the founders of Mzanzi Meat Co, a local cultivated meat company based in Cape Town, the wait was worth the while when they cooked their first cultivated beef patty at an unveiling event on Tuesday.
The vision to start cultivating meat in SA was motivated by the realisation that South Africans love meat. Cultivating meat in a lab is not just less cruel towards animals, it’s also a way to tackle food security while benefiting the environment by reducing land and water use and it produces food that isn’t grown with potentially harmful hormones or antibiotics.“Ultimately what we trying to do is replicate the process of what happens in an animal’s body outside an animal’s body,” explains Thompson.
The team hope to roll out their first products into restaurants by the end of the year and once they’ve received the necessary go-ahead from the government and industry regulators they plan to roll out their cultivated meat products in retail outlets within a couple of years.
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