Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World

by Paul Shapiro

To Friedrich’s mind, there’s ample reason to suspect the sector needs private companies like Mosa Meat and its even newer competitors, and it needs them now. For starters, there are resources that will flow to a private venture that won’t flow to a public one. If there were no private companies, the movement would be leaving millions of dollars on the table; millions of dollars that could otherwise be developing this technology. Few of the venture capitalists we’ll meet later in this book who are funding these start-ups would otherwise have been offering university grants. Equally important is whether many of the people in the for-profit tissue-engineering world who work for corporate salaries would even be willing to work