1. Potential advantages and disadvantages of in vitro meat processing

In vitro meat is emerging at a time when the health, nutritional, environmental and moral issues surrounding conventional meat production are being increasingly documented, and the latter is being called into question. In order to address the potential advantages and disadvantages of in vitro meat, it is worth recalling that synthetic meat is produced from a small number of cells biopsied from a limited number of live animals (figure 1 ). These cells multiply a very large number of times in the laboratory at physiological temperature, producing large quantities of muscle fibers (figure 2 ). This...