Mosa Meat, a market leader in the cultivated beef segment, has recently announced an agreement with Singapore-based cultivated meat manufacturer Esco Aster, which will help to bring Mosa Meat’s cultivated beef to the local market. The formal signing ceremony between Mosa Meat CEO Maarten Bosch and Esco Aster CEO XL Lin was facilitated by the Dutch embassy in Singapore.
Singapore is currently the leader in the cultivated meat sector. It was the first country to grant regulatory approval of cultivated meat in 2020 as part of the country’s 30 by 30 strategy. Founded in Singapore in 2017, Esco Aster is currently the first and only facility to obtain regulatory clearance to produce cultivated meat products in Singapore.
Mosa Meat CEO, Maarten Bosch said, “We will now be able to produce our beef in Asia, as well as in Europe at our recently announced 77,000 sq.ft facility, the world’s largest cultivated meat campus to date. The ability to produce our beef on 2 continents will also reduce the carbon footprint associated with shipping meat across the globe. Our partnership with Esco Aster marks another step forward in Mosa Meat’s global expansion and is a proud moment for the entire Mosa Meat team.”
Mosa Meat grows beef by taking a sesame-seed sized sample of cells and nurturing them to naturally grow into beef. The company claims that it is able to produce 80,000 hamburgers from a single cell sample, without harming a single cow.
Beef is the protein with the highest carbon footprint, and Mosa Meat’s plans to offer consumers cultivated meat will give consumers the beef they crave without causing harm to the environment.
Headquartered in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Mosa Meat is a privately held company backed by Blue Horizon, Bell Food Group, Nutreco, M Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation, Leonardo DiCaprio and other high-caliber investors.
