Ivy Farm to bring cultured pork sausages to market in 2023

Ivy Farm Technologies, a British startup based at the University of Oxford, said it would launch commercial production of sausages from cultivated pork by 2023.

In two years, Ivy Farm-branded products made from reactor-grown meat will appear on restaurant menus and supermarket shelves in the UK. At the same time, the startup guarantees the absence of GMOs and antibiotics in the composition of the products. Along with commercializing the project, Ivy Farm Technologies is developing methods for producing meatballs and burgers.

The company said in a statement that Ivy Farm will be the first UK company to mass-produce affordable cell culture products. Nevertheless, there are a number of centers in the country moving in the same direction. Bacon maker HigherSteaks, Hoxton Farm and Newcastle University's biotech platform CellulaREvolution are working on similar projects.

To achieve its goal, Ivy Farm Technologies is pursuing a fundraising campaign to raise £16 million to develop the research site. By 2025, the startup plans to increase the production of cultured pork to 12,000 tons, which is equivalent to 170,000 pigs rescued from slaughter. 

One of the co-founders of Ivy Farm Technologies, Dr. Russ Tucker (Russ Tucker) argues that research is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, where approximately 20% comes from livestock. According to him, the UK has everything to join the vanguard of the global movement to save the planet.

Dr. Tucker emphasized that growing meat from cell cultures is exactly what is needed to provide people with high-quality animal protein without harming the environment.