Before you tut-tut, the stuff they\u2019ve made apparently tastes and feels just like meat, because it is, except it didn\u2019t come from a slaughtered animal.<\/p>\n
Rather, it came from a petri dish in a lab in Woodstock, Cape Town.<\/p>\n
To be more technical, scientists take cell proteins from cows and grow them in bioreactors in the laboratory.<\/p>\n
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:
\nThompson, 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:<\/p>\n
There are meat cultivation companies in America, Europe, Israel, and now South Africa, too, with Mzansi Meat being the first on the African continent:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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