“The benefit of cultivated meat is that it has all the flavor and taste which naturally occur with meat."

“Harvesting meat is one of the most polluting human related activities on earth. It's responsible for 15% of all gasses emitted every year and second, and it’s one of the main uses of land and water," said Didier Toubia, Co-Founder and CEO at Aleph Farms, speaking to CTech at Calcalist and KPMG's Work after Work event.

Toubia elaborated on the ways his venture is pioneering a new way of growing cultivated meat directly from the cells of animals, at a fraction of the resources and at scale. “We isolate cells and we can grow them in a cultivator mimicking the conditions inside the animal, so we can make a lot of cultivated meat without relying on torturing animals,” he explained.

When asked about the taste and similarity to animal meat, Toubia replied: “The benefit of cultivated meat is that the end product has all the flavor and taste and unique components which naturally occur with meat."

Aleph Farms raised a $105 million Series B in July 2021, and last year also received an investment from environmental activist and Academy Award actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. Aleph Farms grows beef steaks, from non-genetically engineered cells isolated from a living cow, without harming animals and with a significantly reduced impact to the environment.

You can watch the full interview with Toubia in the video above.