What is Cell-cultured Meat? How’s it Made? Cell-cultured Meat Implications for Regulation and Trade

Concern for the impact of meat production on the environment (e.g., resource use and green-house gas emissions) alongside growing global consumption of meat has spurred about $600 million in investments in firms that make animal cell-cultured foods, or “cultured meat,” during 2020 and 2021. Cultured meat is biologically identical to conventionally produced meat but is made from obtaining a small number of animal cells and growing them in a controlled environment. This EBOT compares cultured meat to conventional meat, describes the developing global market and industry for cultured meat, and introduces some initial regulatory