Reimagine meat
Enabling tech to cultivate sustainable and affordable meat for food businesses
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Our mission:
To help save our planet by redefining how meat ends up
on our plates.
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The global food systems are associated with 1/3
of all greenhouse gas emissions, with animal agriculture being the main driver.
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Cultivated meat has the potential to lower land use 95%, water use 78% and emit 92% fewer greenhouse gas emissions.*
*Compared to conventional beef
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It’s meat, just made different – delicious and requiring zero consumer behaviour change.
How does
it work?
Cultivated meat is meat, only made in a different way. A radically more sustainable and ethical way to the same result. A delicious burger, meatball, or lasagna on our plates.
Sourcing & selection
The cells are sourced through a biopsy from the finest and healthiest livestock, living and feeding on a free-range farm. Thereafter a careful selection is made of the cells that are most likely to produce the most sustainable, healthy, and delicious meat.
Cells
The cells that are used are non-GMO and immortalised meaning they can divide and produce meat indefinitely in contrary to continuous animal slaughter.
Cultivation
The cells are fed to divide and grow naturally in a clean, sterile environment called cultivator or bioreactor containing the right temperature, nutrients and vitamins needed.
Harvesting
After proliferation and differentiation, when the cells are grown into the perfect density the meat is harvested. This occurs every third week.
Initially our focus is on a ‘minced meat’ substance, however in the future this could also be whole-cut products.
Seasoning
The minced meat is finally ready for the hands of the chefs to season, cook and refine into heavenly delicious end-products based on our customers’ needs.
Great quality
& taste
The meals you can cook from cultivated meat are equally delicious as the meat you have always eaten. Grown from natural, non-GMO cow cells. Without slaughter, antibiotics nor hormones.
“I can’t
believe it,
I almost
started to cry.
This IS meat!”
Consumer testing Februrary 8th, 2023
It’s all about
cultivated meat
With a vision to make sustainable meat affordable to the many people, Re:meat develops disruptive and enabling technology for cultivated meat production through its unique process system IP. With focus on cultivated minced beef Re:meat offers a technology to produce meat commodity to food businesses to be refined into market-ready products.
Re:meat’s unique meat cultivation approach mirrors the process of brewing beer, using muscle cells donated from a free-range Swedish cow that is still grazing the fields outside of Malmö. Leveraging our enabling technology and IP, we aim to achieve a production cost below conventional beef production.
Our methods result in meat production that has a 92% lower CO2 impact than conventional beef. A sustainable and affordable choice for the consumers that tastes equally good.
We are an experienced team with a relentless passion and grit to create a global food system fit for the future. We have established unique collaborations across borders to succeed.
Combining deep know-how in cell biology & bioprocess engineering with business management and long experience within innovation, go to market, B2B sales, politics and operating heavy capex industrial projects.
All of us sharing the same mission to help save our planet by redefining how meat ends up on our plates. When we, and the rest of the industry succeed, it will have an enormous positive impact on the climate, animal welfare, food security and human health.
A team on
a mission
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CEO & co-founder
jacob@remeatfoods.com
Relentless desire to create disruptive solutions for the future of food. 10 years of experience as Partner in management consulting within corporate venture building, strategy and leadership in food and adjacent industries.
“We enable people to continue eating the foods they have always loved. Rethinking how real meat is produced is likely humanity’s best shot to create a people & planet positive future.”
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Chief Commercial Officer & co-founder
gittan@remeatfoods.com
Previous CEO of food packaging scale-up. Have already done the journey to challenge a conventional industry once and knows what it takes. Has 15 years of experience from food & packaging innovation.
“With the right team and partnerships, courage and sweat, you can make an impact for real. There are no short cuts when going for greener industries, so you got to love the journey” says Gittan.
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Chief Technology Officer
marten@remeatfoods.com
Previous Manager of New Technologies at Carlsberg Group, having designed and built several brewing facilitys from pilot to commercial scale. Heading up our engineering roadmap, upscaling and production related cost structures.
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Research Scientist
emma@remeatfoods.com
Emma holds a MsC in Biochemistry with a focus on cell cultivation, differentiation and tissue engineering, combined with industrial processes.
Advisory board
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Scientific Advisor
Julie Gold was a pioneer in the cultivated meat research space and is today Professor of Biomaterials, Division of Nano and Biophysics, Department of Physics at Chalmers. She is Sweden’s most well-known and published researcher on cultivated meat.
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Pilot and production design
Dedicated 20 years of his career to the brewery titan Carlsberg Group and craft beer specifically. He is one of the founders and MD of Nya Carnegiebryggeriet in Stockholm and behind several other craft breweries under Carlsberg´s global umbrella. Joakim knows how to go from idea to pilot to production.
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Agricultural ecosystem
“We see ourselves as stewards of the planet with ecosystem services as our main product, and in order to maintain a healthy planet with conditions for human life, we must produce food with minimal climate impact”
Farmer and planet caretaker Adam Arnesson, also known as “Ekobonden” (The Ecology Farmer), is passionate about applying scientific evidence to improve sustainability and exploring new ways of feeding a growing population.
He has become well-known as one of Scandinavia’s most progressive farmers. Adam will contribute with firsthand insights on how to create new opportunities and business models for the Scandinavian agricultural ecosystem AND make a huge impact on the planet. Both and, not either or.
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Looking for a top chef advisor that can support the taste, texture and the right sizzling feeling of cooking cultivated meat.
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We are looking for a Food Industry Leader with experience in managing large food industries, production and CAPEX intense projects. An advisor that understands the importance of a green industry shift.
We are always on the lookout for bright purpose-driven people with a unique combination of EQ and IQ that thrive in a dynamic environment and share our mission.
Are you our future star colleague? Check out our open positions, or reach out to our CEO on jacob@remeatfoods.com
Join us!
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Re:meat is a start-up company founded by Jacob Schaldemose Peterson, Gittan Schiöld and Marie Gibbons in 2022 in Sweden. We’re on a mission to help save our planet by redefining how meat ends up on our plates. We don’t think this will save the world but could be one important solution to reduce the stress on our planet. We aim to create substantial impact by building a more sustainable food system for ourselves and all coming generations. We do this by producing, scaling and commercializing cultivated meat, starting in Scandinavia.
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Cultivated meat could help solve the world-wide growing concerns for food security and help combat climate change. The only way to provide meat for a growing global population, is to come up with new, more sustainable and efficient production methods.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that global demand for meat is going to increase by 70% by 2050. With conventional meat production requiring such extreme amounts of resources, it’s simply put impossible for humanity to stay on this trajectory. In no other industry alive today would we settle for a solution with such vast inefficiencies and limited output.
However. When it comes to food, changing human behavior has proven more difficult than flying a rocket to Mars. Cultivated meat would enable us to ‘hack behavior change’, letting people continue to eat the foods they have always loved. It’s real meat, full stop.
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Cultivated meat is essentially exactly the same as conventional meat, just produced with another production method. Instead of growing an entire animal, the meat is produced by growing animal cells. The technology is based on stem-cell research and has been around for 30 years.
So, is this just another alternative to meat? No. It’s the real deal. Real meat. Nothing else. Cultivated meat is not a plant-based substitute. It’s indistinguishable from meat tissue from a chicken, pig or cow.
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The global food system is responsible for 1/3 of all greenhouse gas emissions (and if you account for logistics, the number is even higher). Animal agriculture is the main driver of these emissions, with methane being a greenhouse gas dramatically more potent than carbon dioxide.
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and in general land conversion in all parts of the world, is mainly driven by the growing demand for meat, and growing crops for animal feed.
The lifecycle analyses available for cultivated meat so far are promising. Once at scale, one study finds that cultivated meat will likely require up to 90% less land and water and emit up to 92% fewer greenhouse gases. The exact numbers are still to be unveiled and will of course depend heavily on the willingness of investor and governments to support the development towards large-scale production. It’s clear however, that cultivated meat will provide significant benefits to our planet.
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We retrieve the biopsies solely from animals who are living a good life at responsible farms Our meat is slaughter-free, meaning that you can enjoy the meat from an animal who is still roaming the grassy fields just next to you. Science-fiction? Not anymore.
FAQ
The product
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Since beef has by far the worst impact on the planet, we’re starting with that. We’re currently investigating how to produce minced beef to be sold as is or as hamburgers, meatballs etc.
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This is a long term project and largely dependent of the speed of the EU novel food approval process. The industry expect this to happen in 2025 or 2026. We want to be ready with a pilot plant by then and in 2028-2030 be the best friend of the most ambitious food businesses and large-scale kitchens.
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Yes, you guessed it: Meat!
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Nope. Non-GMO
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Consumers make decisions mainly based on three factors: Taste, price and convenience.
Several consumer surveys have been conducted in European countries and in the US with a range of results, 20%-90% of consumers will try cultivated meat once available. Even 20% of the public is an enormous market of first adopters. The surveys unveil a rather obvious generational gap, with younger generations being more open than older generations to adopt it – which is promising, since their decisions will have the highest positive or negative impact on climate. At Re:meat, we are confident that once the products are launched the consumers requirement on taste, price and convenience will be fulfilled, and it will be a easy for most to switch to cultivated meat..
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The negative effects of livestock farming are so decremental, that to create a meaningful, noticeable impact would require for most Earth’s people to switch to a predominantly plant-based diet. While this would certainly be a great option from an environmental perspective and something we encourage, we see no signs globally for this to happen neither fast enough nor at the scale required to make a dent in the universe. In fact, global meat demand is rising.
We want to provide people with options, so that they can vary their food intake with plant-based and still eat meat without guilt, while at the same time try to eat lower on the food chain. Unlike plant-based alternatives, our product is literally meat, with the same taste and texture.
Engage with us
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Yes you can! If you are fully aware that this is a long-term game, and you share our mission. We will need the expertise across the value chain and stamina to support and make large scale production come alive. Reach out to us if you want to know more!
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We’re always on the lookout for bright purpose-driven people with a unique combination of EQ and IQ. If you’re interested in joining us on our mission to help save our planet, check out our “Join us” page for open positions, or send us an unsolicited application. We can’t wait to meet you! Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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We are setting the foundation and partnerships needed to make this project come alive and planning how cultivated meat can scale and end up onto people’s plates.
Building the ecosystem in Scandinavia/Nordics to increase the awareness and boost the growth of the entire industry. This is not a one-man show. Please reach out if you’d like to collaborate!
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Email us at jacob@remeatfoods.com
