Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken
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The latter signals less disruption and more transformation, SuperMeat CEO and co-founder Ido Savir told me in a call last week.That’s the longterm, though not yet realised, promise of ‘clean meat,’ which is produced in a lab by growing real animal cells.Put over simply, the process involves feeding the cells the correct nutrients to produce muscle and fat, as would ordinarily happen were they grown inside an animal’s body.They include people from the pharmaceutical industry with knowledge of growing cells in a lab and the nutrients needed to cultivate them, along with other scientists, food engineers, and, of course, chefs.Commenting on the new partnership with SuperMeat, PHW-Gruppe’s CEO Peter Wesjohann said: “We at PHW have time and again left the beaten path in conducting our business.