Book 1 - Hola MaHigh-School - June 2022

Cellular
Agriculture
Another way to grow plants ?
There has been a lot of work done around meat free meat or slaughter
free meat which essentiallly means that meat can be grown in a ‘lab’.
However, the question now becomes if ‘plants’ such
as your popularly known food crops can also be
grown in the ‘lab’ and whether there is a ‘consideration’
for growing plants in the lab. Let us explore.
Let us just get the terminology spot-on:
‘Meat-free meat’ is plant-based products, made to
look like meat and have the same consistency as the
meat-product. It is perfect for vegans. It is available in any super-market.
‘Slaughter-free meat’ is lab-grown. In essence,
a sample of the animal tissue is taken and
grown in a ‘bio-reactor’. This is a chemical process
at the cellular level. The finished product is
meat. Another word is ‘fin-less fish’. Same as
above.
We have a term for plants as well: ‘harvest-free
plants’. The technology is the same as for slaughter-free meat or finless
fish. However, plants are different and there are some challenges.