Interview with Eyal Rosenthal, CEO of Ever After Foods, Ltd.
While the bans and regulatory issues are largely derived from those how make a living through animal husbandry, the investor flight can be attributed to the challenge of scale-up which seems to have taken far longer to solve than expected. Although some 150 companies out there are competing in the race to get cell-based meat to market, even those who have a successful bench product have found the cost to scale up without losing quality is still just too high. Remember the $300,000 cell-based hamburger from 2015?