Africa’s first lab chicken meat with plans to expand to a Big 5 Burger and meat ‘breweries’ – Mogale Meat’s Dr Paul Bartels

A South African cultured meat start-up company, Mogale Meat, has created the first cell-based chicken on the continent after only 18 months of research and development. The lab-grown chicken breast is the company’s entry for the $15m XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition and has earned it a place in the semi-finals as the only entrant from Africa. The founder and CEO of the Mogale Meat, Dr Paul Bartels, told BizNews the company grew chicken in the lab for the competition, but its main focus is on cultivating game meat products. He hopes products like a Big 5 burger and Springbok carpaccio could be developed and the company is working towards establishing bioreactors in neighbourhoods, which would be like a local mini meat ‘brewery’. – Linda van Tilburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices