Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming, but the Price Is Hard to Stomach

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Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming, but the Price Is Hard to Stomach
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The startup Finless Foods spends almost $4,000 to cultivate a pound of bluefin tuna—about 20% the price of gold

The Tesla of the dinner plate: Cultivating tuna and beef from animal cells costs thousands of dollars a pound, so producers are pitching the products as luxury goods

The race is on to create lab-grown meat products. Still, little is known about their safety and potential impact. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Jason Bellini visits entrepreneurs, scientists, and ranchers to understand how it’s made, and gets a first taste of steak grown from cultured cells.Finless Foods’ bluefin tuna has never seen the sea. The Berkeley, Calif.

Finless plans to start selling the bluefin at the end of the year. So far it has served small test batches to journalists, usually mixed into croquettes or fish cakes. Mike Selden, the company’s founder and chief executive, plans to roll out...

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