Christian Busse

Insights

Blog posts and articles on the cell-based meat industry (environment, regulation, investment and technology). All my own work; many pieces originated on LinkedIn.

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Mission Barns

A deep dive into Mission Barns, the cultivated pork fat company behind an FDA 'no questions' letter in early 2025, covering its origins, technology, business model, ethics, and competitive landscape.
environmentsustainability

Advocates of lab-grown meat poke holes in claim it's bad for the environment

Cultivated meat advocates push back on a UC Davis study, which claims the technology harms the environment, arguing its footprint reflects early-stage R&D and will fall sharply at mature scale.
technologysustainabilitybioreactor

Bio Optimal Binding

How BOB FoodTech's 'Bio Optimal Binding' aims to recycle and purify cell growth medium, tackling the biggest cost driver in cultivated meat and seafood.
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Cell-Based Coffee

Pluri Inc. launches cell-based coffee through its PluriAgtech vertical as a countermeasure to a looming, climate-driven global coffee crisis.
regulationinvestmenteurope

Europe's Crossroads in Novel Food Innovation and Regulation

Why Europe risks losing its alternative-protein innovators to Singapore and the US, as the EU's slow novel food approval process and an understaffed EFSA hold companies back.
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Generation of three-dimensional meat-like tissue from stable pig epiblast stem cells

A deep dive into a Chinese study on generating cultured meat tissue from stable porcine epiblast stem cells, and what it means for scalable, animal-free production.
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Have a read of The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat

A look at WIRED's reporting on the Center for Environment and Welfare and its misleading campaign against cell-based meat, set against the evidence for its safety and sustainability.
technologyfermentation

Synthetic Or Not Synthetic

Neither beer nor cultivated meat is truly synthetic; both harness natural biological processes, guided and optimised by human ingenuity.
regulationfood safetyeurope

The safety of cell culture-derived food: ready for scientific evaluation

An overview of how the European Food Safety Authority assesses cell culture-derived foods, and why transparent safety evaluation is key to winning public acceptance.
environmentregulationpolicy

What if all our meat were grown in a lab?

A summary of the European Parliament's look at lab-grown meat, weighing environmental gains against the impact on traditional farming and the necessary policy support for a fair transition.
environmentsustainabilityfood systems

Animals Are The Most Inefficient Way Of Making Protein

A short reflection on the staggering inefficiency of turning plant feed into animal protein, and why cultivated meat deserves a fairer hearing.
livestockfood systemssustainability

Animals Are The Most Inefficient Way Of Making Protein

A formal argument, premise by premise, showing how livestock farming, particularly cattle in CAFOs, wastes vast amounts of plant-based feed in producing a tiny fraction of edible calories and protein.
investmenttechnology

Czech Government Supports Mewery with €200K Grant to Cultivate Pork

The Czech government's near-€200,000 grant to Mewery for cultivated pork research using microalgae, and what it signals for slaughter-free pork alternatives.
halalethics

Cell-Based Halal

Islamic scholars have ruled cultivated meat halal, blending tradition with new technology, and raising deeper questions about the identity of a cell line far from its origin.
investingcultivated meatbiotech

Pluri and the Dynamics of Cultivated Meat Investing

An investor's look at Pluri Inc. and its subsidiary Ever After Foods, weighing the promise of their bioreactor platform for cultivated meat against the financial realities of Pluri's 2023 results.
cultivated meatpolicyFrance

The French Government Patronises its Citizens yet Again! Vive la liberté!

A pointed critique of the French proposal to ban cultivated meat, dissecting the rhetoric of Marc Fesneau and Julien Denormandie, the framing tactics against the technology, and what the science actually says about meat safety.
researchtechnologystem cells

Generation of three-dimensional meat-like tissue from stable pig epiblast stem cells (research summary)

A curated research summary of a Nature Communications study by Beijing researchers, who generated three-dimensional meat-like tissue from stable pig epiblast stem cells.
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Sustainability: A New Horizon with Cultivated Seafood

An examination of cultivated seafood as a sustainable alternative to industrial fishing, weighing its environmental footprint, energy inputs, health benefits, and ethical implications.