Commitment

Price parity with conventional meat in general retail by 2030

Private sector food business / Japan

Description

Intensive R&D activities to meet this technological goal - challenges include raw materials (basal medium and growth factors) and capital expenditure (bioreactors)

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Cell-cultured Meat for Everyday Table

Description

1. We build a resilient global food system by resolving the feed-food competition. This is achieved by developing sustainable alternative animal protein sources. The milestones include:

- $300/kg cell-cultured meat by 2023

- Price parity with conventional speciality meat by 2025

- Price parity with conventional meat in general retail by 2030

2. We implement a continual improvement process for the cell-cultured meat industry to substantially shrink the environmental footprint of the conventional meat industry. The milestones include:

- Establishment of a Life Cycle Assessment methodology by 2023

- Footprint of cell-cultured meat below that of factory-farmed meat by 2025

- Parity for price and footprint in cell-cultured poultry by 2040

GNR assessment

Verification status
Unverified
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SMARTness index

Details

Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Policy > Food environment
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Cost per kilogram of cultured cells
Value Measurement date
Baseline USD 3,000 2021
Target USD 10

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