Global food-processing giant announces world's largest lab-grown meat facility to be built in 2024
The world’s largest meat-processing company, Brazil-based JBS S.A., has announced plans to construct the world’s largest cell-cultured, meat plant in San Sabastian, Spain.
The factory will be built by Bio Tech Foods, a JBS subsidiary which has obtained the support of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade to research and cultivate these cell lines for production, according to a report by the Northern Ag Network.
JBS said in a press release:
“In this line, the project led by Bio Tech Foods, ‘Research on cell lines, cultured media and biomaterials for their correct bioprocessing to enable the production of cultivated meat ‘(investMEAT)’ will allow a highly efficient cultivated meat production line, which will solve the challenges of current technology linked to scalability.”
The news broke during the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association annual meeting last week.
Reuters reported that the factory will be capable of producing more than 1,000 metric tons of cultivated beef per year and “JBS said …
