American plant-based food company Eat Just, a maker of “alternative meat” and egg substitutes, has decided to build Asia’s largest artificial meat production plant in Singapore. The factory, which will be operated by a new company subsidiary called Good Meat, will cover an area of nearly 2,800 square meters in the Bedok neighbourhood in southeastern Singapore and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2023. It will have the capacity to produce “tens of thousands of pounds of meat from cells,” higher than Good Meat’s current capacity of about 2,000 pounds, the company said on June 10.
American plant-based food company Eat Just, a maker of “alternative meat” and egg substitutes, has decided to build Asia’s largest artificial meat production plant in Singapore.
The facility, which will be operated by a new company subsidiary called Good Meat, will cover an area of nearly 2,800 square meters and will be located in the Bedok neighbourhood in south-eastern Singapore, and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2023.
The company said on June 10 that it would have the capacity to produce “tens of thousands of pounds of cellular meat,” compared to Good Meat’s current capacity of about 2,000 pounds.
The world’s largest pure bioreactor for cultivation
The meat will be grown from chicken cells in a 6,000-liter bioreactor, the largest such facility in the farmed meat industry to date. About 50 researchers, scientists and engineers will work at the facility, the company added.
Eat Just won permission to sell its lab-grown chicken in Singapore in 2020, becoming the first government to allow the sale of cultured meat. Subsequently, the company established a good meat team in the city-state.
“We think Singapore is critical to our plans to build this new method of meat making. We will launch new products here, distribute from here to other countries in Asia and learn from consumers here who have proven themselves be at the forefront of what’s to come,” said Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick.
Alternative to animal protein
Alternative meats, from plant-based meats to others using extracted animal cells and grown in bioreactors, have emerged in response to increasing concerns about animal welfare, environmental impact and antibiotic resistance in the food supply chain. worry.
Tetrick said the company’s vision is that cultured meat should be the only animal protein on menus for decades to come. Eat Just aims to have its products cost as much or less than chicken, beef and pork by the end of 2030.
