Shiok Meats, sustainable seafood
Shiok Meats is a cell-based clean meat company, the first of its kind in Singapore and South-East Asia.
Our mission is to bring delicious, clean and healthy seafood and meats by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats will bring cell-based crustacean meats (shrimp, crab, lobster) to your table.
Our meats are animal-, health- and environment-friendly with the same taste, texture, more nutrients and no cruelty.
“Shiok” in Singapore and Malay slang means fantastic and delicious.
The current crustacean and seafood industry is tainted with unsustainable overfishing, overuse of antibiotics, accumulation os heavy metals and microplastics, forced labor to name a few. Our solution solves all the above problems.
The world's population is going to be 10 billion, we need sustainable food productions systems to feed us all.
The current crustacean and seafood industry is tainted with unsustainable overfishing, overuse of antibiotics, accumulation os heavy metals and microplastics, forced labor to name a few.
With the growing severity of the climate change crisis - scientists, businesses and corporations have been concerned with finding alternative methods of production. Hence, there has been a growth in the number of campaigns focused on energy conservation and recycling.
The meat industry in particular is a huge contributor to the climate change crisis - producing 37% of human-caused methane emissions and creating the sixth mass extinction. The global demand of meat is ever-increasing, with meat production quadrupling in the last 50 years. Currently, 56 billion land animals are used for human consumption annually, and this number is expected to double by 2050.
Our oceans especially hang in a precarious balance, along with the marine life they harbour and the billions of humans who depend on them for survival and livelihood.
Innovative solutions are urgently needed to address the growing global demand for seafood without causing further and irreversible harm to ocean ecosystems.
Asia’s fish farms are highly fragmented and largely still follow very traditional farming practices, with survival rates as low as 20%.
Hence, reducing pressure on global fisheries is critical to allow ocean ecosystems a chance to recover from decades of mismanagement.
Our solution is cell-based seafood specifically for crustaceans - shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters, crayfish etc. Using our patent pending technology, a small sample of stem cells are taken from the live animal - stem cells have this amazing capability to keep growing if put in the right conditions. Stem cells once frozen down, do not die - they actually just stay there doing nothing - but once you put them back in favorable conditions, they start growing and reproducing again! So once these stem cells are isolated from an animal, they are grown in large quantities - I am talking about millions, billions, trillions of cells in a controlled and sterile environment - in a large chamber called the bioreactor. If you have seen breweries, you would have seen these huge stainless-steel tanks in which beer is brewed. Just imagine these huge tanks brewing meat and seafood inside instead of beer!
Clean meats are meats produced from stem cells and cells of the animal, extracted only once, to produce thousands of tonnes of meat in a controlled environment resulting in meats that are tasty, nutritious and cruelty-free. These meats are also sustainable as they use less land, less water and less energy. Since they are produced from stem cells, their biological and chemical composition is exactly as that of meat. So what we are offering is meat for meat eaters, just from a different source and meat for vegans and vegetarians who do not eat meat due to ethical reasons. So essentially, it is true meat, not fake, not synthetic, and for ALL!
The world population is going to increase to 10 billion in the next 25 years - and we need to feed all our fellow human beings. The solution that I am working on along with my awesome team at Shiok Meats is cell-based meats or clean meat using cellular agriculture or cellular aquaculture, which is revolutionary and offers actual meat and seafood without compromising on taste, flavor, texture or nutrition.
- Promote the shift towards low-impact, diverse, and nutritious diets, including low-carbon protein options
We are working on diverse, food technology that is cutting edge but at the same time sustainable and requires less energy and resources. But our technology provides the mass population with nutritious seafood that is high in protein, but low impact to the environment and no cruelty to animals
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