Setting the table for meat consumers
- The growing global demand for meat is being thwarted by shrinking agricultural areas, and opposes efforts to mitigate methane emissions and to improve public health. Cultured meat could contribute to solve these problems, but will such meat be marketable, competitive, and accepted? Using the Delphi method, this study explored the potential development of cultured meat by 2027. Despite the acknowledged urgency to develop sustainable meat alternatives, participants doubt that challenges regarding mass production, production costs, and consumer acceptance will be overcome by 2027. Considering the noticeable impacts of global warming, further research and development as well as a change in consumer perceptions is inevitable.
Author details: | Victor TiberiusORCiDGND, Jenny Borning, Sabrina SeelerORCiD |
---|---|
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-019-0041-0 |
ISSN: | 2396-8370 |
Title of parent work (English): | Science of Food |
Subtitle (English): | an international Delphi study on in vitro meat |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/06/04 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Release date: | 2019/10/09 |
Volume: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Funding number: | PA 2019_30 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 63 Landwirtschaft |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 64 Hauswirtschaft und Familie | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 108 |