Nice to ‘meat’ you
Peace of Meat was founded in 2019, by Dirk Standaert, David Brandes and Eva Sommer. The start-up perfected a technology to produce animal fats, specifically those from chickens and ducks, using stem cells in bioreactors. Animal fat is the one thing that’s missing from plant-based meats, causing them to fall short on the meatiness scale. For its research into cultivated foie gras, Peace of Meat received a subsidy of EUR 3.6 million from the government of Flanders. Now, only two years later, the young start-up is joining forces with Israeli MeaTech 3D.