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Cellular agriculture uses cells and innovative biotechnologies to produce new ingredients, food and agricultural products. The sector is working to create a range of nutritious products ethically and sustainably.
This method is most commonly used to make meat, seafood, dairy proteins and fats, which are typically derived from animals. It can also be used to make human breast milk as well as other products such as coffee, chocolate and palm oil.
The global demand for food may increase by 50% by 2050. We cannot meet this demand sustainably or ethically with current production methods alone.
Cellular agriculture is one of many solutions required to ensure an ethical, accessible and sustainable food system into the future.
It has the potential to overcome six critical challenges facing our current food and agriculture system.
Its actual impact will depend on numerous decisions cellular agriculture companies will have to make as they move towards commercial scale.
735 million people globally are undernourished and around 900 million people (11% of the world population) are severely food insecure.
We need efficient, affordable and distributed methods of production to boost food availability and accessibility.
Cellular agriculture has an important role to play in reshaping the way our food system is structured.
Animal agriculture alone uses 35% of the Earth’s habitable land, the equivalent of North and South America combined.
Globally, we are losing almost 3.75 million hectares of vegetation every year and around half of that due to cattle grazing.
Cellular agriculture manufacturing facilities will require fewer land resources, which will create an opportunity to stop and reverse this trend.
Widespread deforestation and marine habitat destruction has resulted in an alarming loss of biodiversity across the planet.
For instance, wild animals now make up only 4% of the physical biomass of all mammals on the planet. The remainder is made up of humans and our domesticated/farmed animals.
By reducing our dependence on land and our oceans for food production, cellular agriculture can help to mitigate this problem.
Food systems are responsible for about 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, of which the majority can be attributed to animal products.
Animal agriculture alone is behind 14.5-20% of global emissions.
By 2030, food produced through cellular agriculture using renewable energy technologies, is predicted to generate far less greenhouse gas emissions than conventionally produced meat.
For chicken, the most efficient meat, this could be 55% fewer emissions, for pork it could mean 65% fewer emissions and for beef, the reduction could be as high as 96%.
In terms of dairy foods, the production of milk proteins through precision fermentation is predicted to generate 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional dairy production.
Intensive livestock production has been linked to several human health issues. Including water and air pollution, foodborne pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and the potential for disease transmission.
Three quarters of new or emerging infectious diseases come from animals and half of these are linked to livestock.
With tightly controlled manufacturing processes and stringent food safety standards, cellular agriculture presents a way to minimise these risks.
Intensively farmed animals endure unnatural living conditions and untold suffering.
Globally, it is estimated that 74% of all farmed land animals and almost all fish reside in intensive systems.
Cellular agriculture has the potential to vastly improve the welfare of animals by removing our dependence on them in our food system.
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The sector is growing and presents a myriad of career opportunities across STEM and non-STEM fields.
As a Facilities Manager at Vow you'll be joining a team responsible for overseeing, coordinating and ensuring the completion of maintenance and continuous improvement of the property, plant and equipment across both of their Sydney sites.
In this role, you will work collaboratively across functional teams to ensure all-round alignment in the go-to-market strategy and represent the interface between the Product Development and Commercialisation teams.
In this role, you will drive innovation and guide the team in crafting never-before-seen food products that capture the hearts and palates of consumers.
As a key member of the IT team, you'll help to ensure smooth daily operations and user experiences through top-tier technical support. You'll troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware and software issues.
You’ll guide multidisciplinary projects by leveraging your technical experience, ability to align & motivate team members, and ability to work with stakeholders across the organisation.
The Reliability Engineering and Food Safety Lead will be tasked with implementing robust engineering solutions, implementing a food safety plan, and developing a quality management system in a new manufacturing environment.
As a Business Operations (“BizOps”) Associate at Vow, you’ll be a strategy and operations guru and “jack of all trades” who can dive into any challenge, learn quickly, and hit the ground running.
You will get the opportunity to build an in-house manufacturing capability function from scratch and establish a food manufacturing production line that's set to redefine the culinary landscape.
As a Systems Engineer, you’ll be building and integrating hardware and software systems that automate mission-critical laboratory and manufacturing workflows to bring delicious, low-cost cultured meat to the world in the shortest time frame.
Vow are looking for a Process Development Scientist/Engineer with experience scaling new processes to pilot/demo factory scale to join their rapidly growing food company.
As a recognised expert in synthetic biology, you lead the execution of systems biology methodologies in the domain of strain engineering. This entails overseeing the scientific trajectory and management of the metabolic engineering team.
As part of the metabolic engineering team you will use your strain engineering skillset in combination with our in-house high-throughput bio foundry to increase protein titre, strain growth, industrial robustness and other strain features.
All are seeking a dynamic and tech-savvy individual with a solid background in general accounting to join All G Foods as a part-time Financial Accountant.
They're seeking an exceptional leader to spearhead their global expansion as they delve into technology manufacturing and precision fermentation. As the CTO, you'll oversee their dynamic science team and drive innovation to new heights.
As a Mechanical Engineer at Vow you'll be responsible for designing, building, testing and maintaining equipment and utilities for commercial manufacturing of cultured meat.
Legal and regulatory work in the cultured meat space is about as cutting-edge as it gets – the laws are still catching up with the technology, and every day there is a new development somewhere around the world
This role sits within the Food Science Team and leverages dairy science and processing, protein biochemistry and product development to characterise and utilise precision fermented dairy proteins for next generation dairy products.
You'll enable and accelerate the future of food through software and data. You’ll collaborate with the world’s leading experts in cell culture research and manufacturing.
As Vow’s first ever sales hire and our first hire in Singapore, you’ll be tasked with leading sales and business development efforts in Singapore.
We're always interested in hearing from world-class talent, even when we don’t have your perfect role listed on our careers page.
If you’re passionate about Cellular Agriculture Magic Valley want to hear from you! No matter your background or experience, if you’re passionate about seeing the Cellular Agriculture industry grow and prosper, they want you onboard.
Eden Brew are always looking for passionate people to join us in our journey.
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