The following report is by Tech Crunch:
Bluu Seafood, a German company developing “lab-grown” fish, is showcasing its first finished products as it prepares to begin the regulatory approval process for key markets in Asia, Europe and North America.
Founded in 2020 (originally as Bluu Biosciences), Bluu Seafood is one of several companies working to solve the world’s seafood production problems, which includes overfishing, contamination from heavy metals and plastic, and cruelty. To do this, the Berlin-based company starts with a single “one-time” fish biopsy (the fish doesn’t have to be killed for this), and then uses stem cell technology to develop full cell lines (fish species) in a lab setting.
Today, Bluu unveiled its first two products — fish sticks (or “fish fingers,” as they’re known in some markets) and fish balls, which are made from cultivated fish cells and “enriched” with plant proteins, a process designed to optimize how they cook and how they feel in the mouth.
Countless companies are working on the same problem as Bluu, with San Francisco-based Wildtype recently securing $100 million in funding to develop “sushi-grade” cultivated salmon, while South Korea’s CellMeat raised some cash for lab-grown shrimp. Bluu, for its part, secured $7 million in seed funding just last year.
So it’s clear there is a real push toward creating sustainable “synthetic” seafood. From Bluu’s perspective, this sustainability lies in what is known as “immortalized” cells, so that once it it has created its initial biomass using cells from a real fish, everything from that point on is self-sufficient, with no real fish or GMO (genetically modified organisms) used anywhere in the process.
That is the amazing thing about ‘immortalized’ cells — while ‘normal’ cells double for, let’s say, 20 times and then stop, the immortalized cells keep on doubling — theoretically forever.
Bluu co-founder Simon Fabich told TechCrunch
Bluu’s key differentiators also lie in the types of fish it’s currently working on. While the likes of Wildtype is focused on Pacific Salmon, for example, Bluu is working on Atlantic Salmon, rainbow trout and carp. On top of that, Bluu is initially striving for simplicity with products such as fish sticks and fish balls, rather than trying to recreate more complex edibles such as sashimi — although such fish dishes are on its longer-term menu.
We are working in parallel on more complex products such as fish fillet and sashimi, of which prototypes already exist. But those are without a doubt harder to scale, and it will take more time to achieve price parity with the conventional product.
Fabich said
But over and above all that, Bluu is based in Europe, which not only has a gargantuan seafood market, but a strong biotechnology foundation, including research institutions and medical centers, among other necessary ingredients to make lab-grown seafood a reality.
Europe has a huge pool of highly skilled people in the biotechnology sector. Also, many of the leading equipment and ingredient companies that are crucial for the realization of large-scale production are based in Europe. Our approach is collaborative, which means that we do not intend to reinvent all the technologies it takes to get to large-scale production, but instead work with technology partners.
Fabich added
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Proverbs 23:3
Do not buy into the hoopla and narrative that the fake meats and plant-based slop is dying out: we are still in that transitionary phase where crises must be created to justify the masses to get off of eating actual meats.
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Fake fish? No thanks!
Salmon, sardines, cod, halibut, (not a fan of tilapia or catfish and crawfish is disgusting to me at least) bass, and other fish are the ONLY fish that should be eaten – whether you who fishes or you’re a fisherman by profession, that’s the ONLY fish that should be eaten.
I’ll even eat pufferfish – which is POISONOUS and it must be prepared by chefs who have undergone 2 to 3 years of training on how to prepare it (in Japan, it’s called fugu) do not attempt to eat pufferfish like you would bass or cod that would be a fatal mistake. Professional licensed chefs ONLY, but at least that’s a real fish!
Hard to stomach these media releases and narratives. No pun intended.
Good thing all these quacks and heathens out there keep away from the general public.
People will be coming for them soon.
It’s going to be nasty when they’re so sick and tired of the fake meats, that they riot.
Even vegetarians (not vegans) don’t want that junk.
The Catholics will love that for their ‘no meat’, manna-less abstinence & penance works to be saved fish Friday’s! All you can eat….and talk about your ‘last supper’ wresting the word bloody MYSTERY, vicarious Christ antichrist- style. I wonder what the special sauce will be? A little cannibalistic vampire brew of ‘young blood’, harvested & bio-enhanced just for each one, their own little custom trans-humanizing cup of Borgia, according to their position of ‘service’ & usefulness to Mother Earth Isis-Ishtar-Shiva Church & cronies?