With South Africa’s population on the rise, our food security is expected to be an even bigger challenge than it is presently, and a company that is trying to solve this challenge and ensure that fewer people need to go to bed hungry is Mzansi Meat. They’re doing this by making meat in a different kind of way – a kind of specialised process that uses technology to make the meat and minimise the harm that is done to animals.
Great question. We are aiming in the next couple of weeks to launch our first burger. So we’re still in the early R&D phase at the moment. We are going from what we call ‘lab scale’ to actual pilot-production scale. So we’ll be producing our first burger and that should be hitting South African media in the next couple of weeks. After that we will scale up our production somewhere. We are here in Woodstock with a couple of hundred metres to upwards of 10 000 metres.
Your report says that it’s taken quite a long time. The research and development process has taken over two years or so. I also want to know what this meat – that’s not quite meat but is meat – tastes like.
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