Prospects for In Vitro Cultured Meat - A Future Harvest

Principles of Tissue Engineering: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1663-1683

  Bhat, Z F ^a   Bhat, Hina ^b   Pathak, Vikas ^c  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF JAMMU   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^c Uttar Pradesh Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalay Evum Go Anusandhan Sansthan   (India)

Author keywords

Advantages; Animal Suffering; Challenges; Cultured Meat; Designer Meat; Environmental Pollution; In vitro Meat; Meat Substitute; Need; Requirements

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LAND USE; POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ADVANTAGES; CHALLENGES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; IN-VITRO; NEED; REQUIREMENTS;

MEATS;

EID: 84903224558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398358-9.00079-3     Document Type: Chapter

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