Before you tut-tut, the stuff they’ve made apparently tastes and feels just like meat, because it is, except it didn’t come from a slaughtered animal.
Rather, it came from a petri dish in a lab in Woodstock, Cape Town.
To be more technical, scientists take cell proteins from cows and grow them in bioreactors in the laboratory.
Mzansi Meat Co. co-founder Brett Thompson describes it as meat that has the flavourful consistency of real meat without the guilt of rearing cows, per Business Insider SA:
Thompson, along with co-founder Jay van der Walt, started Mzansi Meat Co. in 2019 with the hopes of seeing more Saffas eat more sustainable food, reported Forbes Africa:
There are meat cultivation companies in America, Europe, Israel, and now South Africa, too, with Mzansi Meat being the first on the African continent:
Thompson, a vegetarian for the past 15 years who has tasted a few of the cultivated meat prototypes out there, is proud to call his creation something like meat.
