CCMB-HSI tie up to develop lab-grown meat tech, plan to rope in start-ups

Clean meat production needs far less land and water than conventional meat production, minimises impact of climate change, requires no antibiotics

Weeks after American food manufacturing company Just, Inc. said it would possibly include lab-grown meat in restaurant menus by the end of this year, Humane Society International (HSI)/India and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) on Wednesday announced a collaboration to develop and promote such a product in India.

Being able to produce laboratory-grown meat, also called  'clean meat', on a commercial scale