Israel's MeaTech 3D Ltd., a foodtech startup developing a suite of advanced manufacturing technologies to produce slaughter-free, cultured meat products, has launched research into cultivated pork, the company announced Tuesday.
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The expansion of MeaTech's R&D activities to pork is part of its strategy to develop a broad cellular agriculture technology offering, which already includes beef and chicken cell lines. Porcine cellular agriculture, if successfully developed, has the potential to expand MeaTech's potential addressable markets, as pork is currently the most consumed meat across the globe.
MeaTech CEO Sharon Fima said, "Our goal is to lead the upcoming agricultural revolution by making tomorrow's meat safe, plentiful and sustainable. MeaTech is developing a broad range of cultured meat technologies, developing potential alternatives to conventional factory farming of beef, chicken and now, pork.
"We believe that offering additional cultivated meat product lines can widen our addressable markets, generating additional revenue potential. Our goal is to be similar in all respects to livestock-farmed pork, while offering a significantly more sustainable and slaughter-free production method," Fima added.
