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by AS37 1295 days ago
> Doesn’t lab grown meat need a lot of growth serum, which is currently extracted from pregnant animals?

5 years ago it took ~50L of fetal bovine serum (FBS) to grow a burger, at around USD 400/L. FBS is made from the blood of unborn calves, which are taken from slaughtered cows.

All lab meat companies are obviously looking to reduce that input cost by finding a replacement.