Dr. Stephanie Willerth

University of Victoria, Microbiology

What is the cost of culturing meat?

“It depends on the cell culture methods being used. Some use animal
derived products like fetal bovine serum and other groups use
chemically defined media that avoids animal derived products. Usually the processes that use non-animal derived products are more expensive. In theory, UVic could, but it would be expensive to get the resources to make enough cells and get them in the proper structure to generate such cultured meat.”Dr. Stephanie Willerth, University of Victoria, Microbiology