Ines Lizaur, CTO at Australian cultivated meat company Vow, is leveraging her background in aerospace and automotive industries to tackle the challenges of scaling lab-grown meat production, creating unconventional products like woolly mammoth meat and Japanese quail foie gras. Despite skepticism from some experts, who cite high production costs, scalability, and consumer acceptance as major hurdles, proponents believe cultivated meat offers a sustainable solution to traditional meat consumption. Companies like Vow, Wildtype, and Upside Foods are striving to overcome these obstacles through innovative approaches, large-scale bioreactors, and strategic investments, though regulatory approval and research gaps, particularly concerning energy consumption and complex cultivated seafood, remain significant challenges for the industry’s widespread success.
