Clean meat: Boon or bane?

Meat has played an important role in human nutrition since long. With urbanization and rising income, the demands for meat and meat products are increasing, especially in the developing world. With intensive livestock production, animal suffering has been increasing which is a major concern for most of the meat consumers globally. Similarly, environmental health is deteriorating day-by–day Clean meat production seems to be a feasible and viable alternative for conventional livestock production. Clean meat technology has multiple benefits. Both the higher cost of production and consumer acceptance of clean meat are major challenges for the researchers globally. Efforts need to be directed for the production of cost-effective and large scale clean meat with similar sensory attributes to that of conventional meat. This review looks into the technology of clean meat production, its merits, challenges and consumer perspectives etc.