2013年8月5日，荷兰教授Mark Post在伦敦推出全球首个实验室培养汉堡，由谷歌联合创始人Sergey Brin资助，耗资33万美元1。这次亮相引发了对培养肉产业的广泛期待，Post预言该技术将在十年内成为消费产品1。随后全球涌现出140多家相关企业，并在投资热潮中累计获得30亿美元融资1。然而，这个曾被寄予厚望的产业已陷入困境，商业化目标仍遥遥无期。
技术瓶颈、高昂成本和政治阻力共同阻碍了行业的发展。从2021年起融资开始下滑，2023年仅募集1.77亿美元1。美国多个州相继立法限制培养肉的销售和生产，包括佛罗里达州、阿拉巴马州、密西西比州、印第安纳州、蒙大拿州、内布拉斯加州和德克萨斯州1。曾计划在北卡罗来纳州Wilson建设全球最大培养肉工厂的Believer Meats，其占地20万平方英尺、年产能2100万磅的设施已申请破产，且被Gray Construction起诉3400万美元1。消费端的接受度也不理想，根据Good Food Institute的数据，仅18%的美国人认为培养肉极具吸引力或很有吸引力，近60%的人表示不太可能或很不可能购买1。
目前全球仅有一家零售商销售培养肉产品，位于新加坡的Huber's Butchery销售GOOD Meat品牌的培养鸡肉条，售价为5.62美元/四盎司1。尽管存在挑战，部分投资者仍在持续支持这一领域，Jeff Bezos通过其Earth Fund向北卡州立大学捐赠3000万美元建立Bezos可持续蛋白中心1。Mission Barns等企业正继续推进产品开发，其从约克郡猪名为Dawn的个体提取细胞进行培养，周期约两周，最终产品含有少于10%的动物细胞1。
The cultivated meat sector has descended into crisis after a decade of ambitious expansion and substantial investment. What began as a breakthrough moment in 2013—when Dutch researcher Mark Post unveiled the first laboratory-grown hamburger in London at a cost of $330,000, funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin—sparked a global investment boom that drew over $3 billion to more than 140 startups worldwide.1 Post's prediction that cultured meat would become a consumer product within ten years ignited widespread optimism across the industry.1
The sector's trajectory has since reversed sharply. Investment funding plummeted from its peak, declining to just $177 million in 2023.1 Political headwinds have intensified as seven U.S. states—Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, and Texas—enacted legislation prohibiting or restricting the sale and production of cultivated meat.1 Believer Meats, which had built a 200,000-square-foot facility in Wilson, North Carolina designed to be the world's largest cultured meat production site with an annual capacity of 21 million pounds, filed for bankruptcy and faced a $34 million lawsuit from Gray Construction.1
Consumer adoption remains a fundamental barrier to commercialization. According to the Good Food Institute, only 18 percent of Americans view cultured meat as extremely or very appealing, while nearly 60 percent indicated they were unlikely or very unlikely to purchase it.1 Currently, only one global retailer sells cultivated meat: Huber's Butchery in Singapore, which offers GOOD Meat brand cultured chicken strips for $5.62 per four ounces.1
Some industry participants continue development efforts despite the sector's challenges. Mission Barns cultivates cells from a Yorkshire pig named Dawn over approximately two weeks to produce products containing less than 10 percent animal cells.1 Jeff Bezos's Earth Fund committed $30 million to North Carolina State University to establish the Bezos Center for Sustainable Proteins.1
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