What is the environmental impact of insect-derived growth factors?
Cultivated meat and other cellular agricultural products require growth factors. Most growth factors are produced using bacteria, yeast, or hamster ovary cells. These are not the most efficient systems, as they rely on expensive, energy-intensive, stainless steel tanks called bioreactors. In order to produce cultivated foods at scale, growth factors also need to be produced at scale, and they are constrained by these systems. Future Fields, however, replaces the bioreactor with a fruit fly. Producing complex growth factors at a rate that is 30 times faster than steel tanks, our fruit fly-based production platform requires less water, energy, land, and waste treatment than alternative systems.
Diane Jeon, Future Fields, Marketing Lead https://futurefields.io/pages/people