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Bloggen kan nu avslöja vilket köttproducerande företag det handlar om som så överraskande köpte HoloMonitor. Det handlar alltså om det San Fransiscobaserade företaget Artemys Foods.

Artemys Foods was founded in 2019 by Jessica Krieger.

Jess Krieger is a biochemist that is interested in cultivating animal flesh in laboratories for mass consumption. The idea behind the company is to allow people to eat meat without the consequences of growing actual animals, or impacting the environment. They don't want to manufacture plant-based meat, as they believe it is difficult to replicate the sensory experience of eating a piece of meat through plants.

Artemys Foods was named after the Greek goddess Artemis, who is the ancient goddess of wild animals and the hunt. The company has the mission to progress and allow humanity to eat sustainable meat alternatives. The meat alternatives that Artemys Foods produces is a cultivated meat, rather than meat that directly comes from animals.

The Artemys Burger is made from a combination of plant-based and cell-cultured meat. 

They develop cell lines and they look to make the scale up of bovine skeletal muscle and fat cells.

 

Financial Times intervjuade företaget 2020 där jag väljer ut delar av intervjun.

Can you swallow the idea of lab-grown meat?

“We believe the only way to change how the majority of people are eating meat is to be able to give them real meat — without the negative consequences caused by growing actual animals, whether impact to the environment or animal welfare.”

Krieger adds: “Plant-based meat gets some of the way [to remove meat from the diet] . . . but it will never be able to fully replicate the sensory experience of eating a really great piece of meat. [This technology] creates this, with the same or better nutrition. Eventually, eating meat from actual animals will be seen as an archaic practice only carried out by a minority.”

Companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have developed plant-based alternatives that are fast gaining traction. Indeed, the trend is so strong that even traditional meat businesses, such as Tyson Foods, are getting involved.

There is an irony here: even as plant-based alternatives to meat become trendy, they are arguably making food less “natural” and less “organic”. Impossible’s non-meat “burger”, for instance, uses complex chemical processes involving yeast to replicate the molecules found in meat."

 

Sen intervjun har företaget väckt uppmärksamhet och proffessionella investerare har satsat betydande kapital i det de tror är nästa generations köttproducenter som kommer ta över från ex Beyond Meat mfl då dessa uppmärksammas för att efterlikna/producera köttalternativ som kräver komplicerade kemiska processer.

 

June 2021

Artemys Foods is raising $26,773,299.00 in New Equity Investment.

April 2021

Artemys Foods raises a $62,400,000 venture round.

June 2020

Artemys Foods raises a $125,000 seed round from Alumni Ventures Group, BoxGroup, Entrée Capital and Prelude Ventures.

 

FOOD navigator-usa intervjuade Jessica Krieger kort efter Financial Times uppmärksammat företaget.

Deras material är dessvärre skyddat från återpublicering,men artikeln som är mycket läsvärd hittas här.

"At first it seemed like science fiction.." Cell cultured meat startup Artemys Foods emerges from stealth mode

 

Ur en annan artikel :

Is the world getting close to its first taste of cultured meat?

Plant-based meats are no longer a novelty for most US consumers who have at least seen them in the supermarket or tasted burgers from fast-growing brands like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.

At the same time, another growing crop of startups has been working on recreating traditional animal meat from stem cells, and it’s possible that their first products could hit at least some markets as early as next year. 

Meat made from animal cells instead of from whole animals has been given many different names before the first products have even hit the market. 

“Cell-based” and “lab-grown” have given way to “clean,” “cultured” and, most recently, “cultivated,” the moniker the Good Food Institute (GFI) uses in its “2019 State of the Industry: Cultivated Meat” report. 

Food producers have the challenge of feeding a growing global population threatened by the effects of climate change and now a global pandemic that has been traced to wild animals as the likely original source. 

Cell-based or cultivated meat could cut the amount of land used for production by 95% and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by between 74% and 87%, according to the GFI report.

Additionally, producing just the desired cuts of meat would eliminate waste and the clean setting means there’s no risk of contamination by E.coli, salmonella and other pathogens, and no need for antibiotics, the report says.

Unlike plant-based meats, some of which have come remarkably close to replicating traditional meats, meat grown from animal cells is identical to the products sourced through traditional animal agriculture. 

One of the earliest terms applied to cultivated meat was “lab grown,” a misnomer according to GFI. That’s because the meat won’t actually be produced in a lab once companies scale up -- the products will be made in cultivation facilities and GFI likens the process to brewing beer or cultivating vegetables."

Andra läsvärda artiklar är Redefining Meat och Slaughter-free sausages: New Age Meats nets investment to propel cell based-science. Och slutligen en länk till GFI som förklarar cellbaserad matproduktion.

Artemys Foods är en av pionjärerna som kommer följas av många andra alt/proteintillverkande företag.

Dessa likt Artemys utgår från proteinets uppsättning och kommer i labb kunna utveckla nästa generation livsmedel.

 I nuläget finns det ett liknande företag som även de producerar mat från celler.

UPSIDE foods (tidigare Memphis Meats) med Bill Gates som finansiär.De producerar jänkarnas favoritprotein, kycklingkött i ett flertal varianter och räknar med att nå konsumentmarknaden innan årets slut.

 

"Our meat production method is inspired by nature’s basic principles: start with one cell and give it the proper nutrients to allow it to grow and multiply. We feed the cell a range of nutrients (amino acids, sugars, trace minerals, and vitamins) normally found in food and compositionally similar to what develops organically in animal body, just in a different format.

We're committed to completely detaching our production process from animal slaughter. We have already developed processes that do not require FBS and we are working to phase out the use of all animal components altogether. Our aim is to bring animal component-free products to market as soon as we can."

HoloMonitor med sin låga kostnad och kanske speciellt mtp sin storlek/mobilitet att ingå i ett labb som för denna nya industri inte kräver ett traditionellt fullutrustat labb lär hitta en helt ny marknad här. Länk

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