Frustrated by “a lot of shortcomings” in the cultivated meat industry that held back production and increased prices, Hatchless CEO Vahid Hosseini said he ultimately turned to nature for a more efficient and effective process.
“The egg is a miracle. It has [all the] ingredients and is self-sufficient” at producing tissue without the piping, flooding, mixing and other processes that many cultivated meat companies are trying to reproduce, he explained to FoodNavigator.
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To recreate the miracle of the egg […] Hatchless made what it calls a “scalable production unit,” which Hosseini said one person fondly dubbed an “egg bioreactor,” in which poultry cells from an infertile egg can grow and be harvested multiple times without the addition of chemicals, growth factors, hormones, enzymes, antibiotics or genetically modified cells.
By reducing reliance on living chickens, the Hatchless team says their technology will help reduce animal disease outbreaks, the risk of contamination related to food poisoning, and greenhouse gas emission associated with raising and processing chickens.
They say their approach also is less expensive than conventional and cultivated poultry, because it sidesteps the causes of price volatility associated with conventional egg production and uses less energy and has a greater yield than current cultivated meat production using bioreactors.
