Pilot plant for cultivated pork for sustainable food systems

随着世界人口的不断增长，我们看到全球肉类消费也在大幅增长。这些因素加在一起对环境产生了巨大的负面影响，是气候变化、土地转化和退化的主要驱动因素。人造肉将允许人们继续吃肉，但不会产生与农场饲养动物相关的碳足迹，帮助英国到2040年实现净零排放。人造肉与传统肉类相同，但不是屠宰整只动物以获取有用的部分，而是从动物身上提取一些细胞，例如从皮肤或肌肉中提取细胞，然后在非常受控的条件下生长，以产生与肉类相当的成分（即肌肉和脂肪）。这项技术将为我们提供可持续的、更健康的肉类产品，这些产品在营养上与传统肉类相同，但碳足迹大大减少。所有的多细胞生物都是从干细胞中生长出来的；它们是动植物中所有细胞类型的来源。目前的工作复制了这些自然生理过程，以更低的成本生产肉类，对环境，我们的健康和动物。通过这个项目，highersteak计划开发英国第一家养殖肉类的试验工厂。这也将是世界上最大的养殖猪肉产量——迄今为止，只有鸡肉、牛肉和鱼类产品达到了中试规模。这将使英国处于一个快速增长的行业的前沿，这将对2040年实现净零排放产生重大影响。

Alongside the world's increasing population, we are seeing a huge rise in Global meat consumption. Together these have a huge negative impact on the environment and are key drivers in climate change, land conversion and degradation. Cultivated meat willallow people to continue eating meat but without the carbon footprint associated with farm reared animals, helping the UK reach net zero by 2040\. Cultivated meat is the same as conventionalmeat, but instead of slaughtering a whole animal for useful parts, a few cells are taken from the animal e.g. from the skin or muscle, to extractcells which are then grown under very controlled conditions to produce the equivalent constituents of meat (namely muscle and fat). This technology willprovide us with sustainable, healthier meat products, which are nutritionally identical to conventionalmeat but with a greatly reduced carbon footprint. All multicellular organisms grow from stem cells; they are the source of all cell types in animals and plants. The current work replicates these natural physiological processes, producingmeat at a much lower cost to the environment, our health and the animals. With this project, HigherSteaks plans to develop the UK's first pilot plant for cultivated meat. This will also be the world's largest cultivated pork production - to date, only chicken, beef and fish products have been brought to pilot scale. This will put the UK at the forefront of a rapidly growing industry that will have a significant impact on reaching net zero by 2040\.