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In vitro meat is certainly not the main threat to French breeding, but he clearly did not need that."
For Marie-Christine Chauvin, senator from the Jura, as for the majority of the political class and the French, the subject of meat produced in the laboratory remains particularly sensitive.
As in many countries with an established agricultural and gastronomic culture, these high-tech techniques consisting in reproducing in a culture medium (in the laboratory or in bioreactors) animal cells of beef, chicken, pork or fish arouse mistrust scientific but also a legitimate fear for the future of traditional breeding.
However, the development of start-ups pioneering these technologies has not slowed down in recent years.
According to a Senate report made public in April, there were about 110 in 2022, including about fifteen in Europe.
One of them, the American Eat Just, even obtained a green light in 2020 to sell its cellular chicken…
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