The artificial meat market will hit $ 450 billion in 2040. And companies are sniffing the business

It was the year 2013 when the researcher Mark Post, at the University of Maastricht, recreated the first synthetic hamburger in history in the laboratory, with an investment of 250 thousand euros. Assuming, however, that the production costs of artificial meat can drop at the same speed as those related to genome sequencing, a recent study by McKinsey places in 2030 the achievement of price parity between “real” steak and “test tube” steak. .