The global push to develop lab-grown meat is taking an exotic twist in South Africa, where slaughter-free cuts of springbok, wildebeest and impala could soon be on the menu.
Mogale Meat Co has already produced Africa’s first cell-based chicken and is now developing a range of game meats without having to kill wildlife.
Meanwhile, Cape Town-based Mzansi Meat Co unveiled the continent’s first cultivated beef burger in April, and wants to scale up production to supply a national fast-food chain by 2023. Cell-based meat production on a large scale could address sustainability concerns as the global population grows and people add more meat to their diets. It also offers food security through domestic production for nations that rely heavily on imports. One such country is Singapore, the first in the world to permit the sale of cultured meat.
“Once we’ve reached price parity with conventional meat” the company aims to capture as much of the market in South Africa and the rest of the continent as possible, Bartels said. Co-founder Brett Thompson said he aims to supply a nationwide burger franchise by the end of this year or early 2023.
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