You can’t eat cell-based meat anywhere except Singapore, but that hasn’t stopped start-up Vow opening a huge factory in Sydney.
Opening a factory producing food that cannot be legally consumed seems like a risky move. But that’s what George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith did last week, cutting the ribbon on a multimillion-dollar facility to grow meat from animal cells.
The pair claim the plant in the inner Sydney suburb of Alexandria is the largest of its type in the southern hemisphere and, when running at capacity, will be able to produce up to 30 tonnes of cell-based meat products a year. “We [as a society] just use beef and chicken and pork as a kind of crude proxy to describe the flavour or nutritional profile,” Mr Peppou said.
The launch of Vow’s new facility in Australia marks the latest deliberate decision to keep advanced manufacturing plants onshore.
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