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Is India ready for lab-grown meat? (part 2)

Written by Jiqing Hansen on 07/07/2020. Posted in Cultured Meat.

India has been the fastest-growing major economy in the past few years. Within the next decades, India is also expected to surpass China and become the most populous country in the world. Can cultivated meat help to meet the country’s rising demand for protein? Varun Deshpande, Managing Director at Good Food Institute India, is quite confident that it will. When Varun Deshpande started The Good Food Institute India in December 2017, his mission was to offer producers and consumers an alternative to industrial animal agriculture. Today, with the support of Varun...

Is India ready for lab-grown meat? (part 1)

Written by Jiqing Hansen on 05/05/2020. Posted in Cultured Meat.

With two government-backed research facilities, a young and well-developed startup company, and a population of 1.35 billion, will India become the next frontier in cell-based meat after the US? Will India become the next frontier in lab-grown meat? In 2016, India’s domestic poultry consumption was ranked as the fifth-largest in the world. With its growing population, rising disposable incomes, and changing food habits, the country needs more protein products to keep pace. The authorities in India seem to have the political will to encourage cell-based protein. Two facilities...

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Is India ready for lab-grown meat? (part 2)

Is India ready for lab-grown meat? (part 1)

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