clean meat

English

Etymology

Coined by The Good Food Institute in 2016, modeled after clean power, clean eating etc.

Noun

clean meat (uncountable)

1. Meat grown in cell culture instead of being produced by slaughtering animals.

   Synonym: cultured meat

   • 2018, Kathy Freston, Bruce Friedrich, Clean Protein, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     In many ways, clean meat is aimed at the least common denominator: meat for the 98 percent of the population that focuses its food choices almost exclusively on price, taste, and convenience.

   • 2020, Jenny Kleeman, Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     There is no campaign against clean meat. The few individual voices I've found who are prepared to criticize it are overwhelmingly drowned out by the chorus of positive messages sent out by the clean meat industry.

Translations

meat grown in cell culture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: kweekvlees (nl) n
• Finnish: keinoliha

Further reading

• cultured meat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia