How Will Cultured Meat and Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Agricultural and Food Industry?

In the western world byproducts not only include bones and skin but also organs and meat parts such as liver, pork belly, or tripe, which are not in high demand by consumers.

According to industry experts, the conversion rate from grain to meat for poultry can be improved 3.0 to 1.8 kg of grain for 1 kg of meat, but this holds true only for optimized industrial livestock farming conditions.

“Feed production” refers to crop yields from arable land; pasture land is not considered here.

These are solely farmers cultivating at least five hectares. When considering smallholder farmers as well, the total number increases to around half a billion.

Freshwater can be differentiated as “green” and “blue” water. While “green” water is rain falling on the Earth's surface and being absorbed by plants, “blue” water is in lakes, rivers, groundwater, and glaciers.

The calculation is based on the arithmetic average of the conversion rates of bovine, pig, and poultry as well as considering byproducts (non-edible meat) by 40%

Based on expert interviews and A.T . Kearney analysis.

Based on expert interviews and A.T . Kearney analysis.

This price assessment applies only to the so-called muscle meat; the price of mechanically separated and mixed meat is of course even lower.