Cellular Agriculture Society

Cellular Agriculture Society (or CAS) is an international 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Miami, created in 2017 to research, fund and advance cellular agriculture.

Cellular Agricultural Society
Founded2017
FounderKristopher Gasteratos
Headquarters
Miami
,
United States
Websitehttps://www.cellag.org

Cellular Agriculture is the emerging science of producing animal products from cells instead of from live animals.[1]

Cellular Agriculture, or Cell-Ag, is actively developing foodstuffs and other animal products that include meat, milk,[2] and eggs, also leather,[3] silk and even rhinoceros horn from animal cells.

Cellular agriculture uses biotechnology to produce animal products currently harvested from living tissue.[4] Expectations are the science will evolve to create non harvested meat and animal products that will meet the demand for Animal products without harming the animals themselves.[5]

Cellular agriculture[6] sciences are evolving based on two techniques:

  • Tissue Engineering (growing tissues in a laboratory)
  • Fermentation (using microorganisms derive proteins).

The process is controversial as certain government ( France, Australia and most recently the state of Missouri) entities are in conflict over what can officially be termed "meat".[7]

Terminologies have emerged to describe the products though final terminology for the products are not widely accepted yet.[8]

References
  1. Hawthorne Ripley (16 October 2018). "Ivy League convenes at Penn to discuss the future of food". The Daily Pennsylvanian.
  2. "Leap forward for dairy reinvention: Perfect Day and ADM partnership to scale up animal-free dairy protein production". Food Ingredients First. CNS Media BV. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  3. Jolley, Chuck (14 June 2018). "New cellular agriculture and rise of neominvores". feedstuffs.com. Informa. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  4. Liem, Emma (18 July 2018). "The 3 things in lab-grown meat's way to industry transformation". www.fooddive.com. Industry Dive. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  5. Shapiro, Paul (2 Jan 2018). Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Clean-Meat/Paul-Shapiro/9781501189104. ISBN 9781501189081.CS1 maint: location (link)
  6. McCarthy, Marty (5 May 2018). "Food from a lab or a plant: Is the future of meat fake and slaughter-free?". ABC Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  7. Haridy, Rich (20 May 2018). "Lab-grown meat not meat according to state of Missouri". New Atlas.
  8. Kauffman, Jonathan (May 5, 2017). "Will consumers accept lab-generated meat?". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved Dec 7, 2018.
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