A research group led by Professor Hibino Aiko of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hirosaki University and Professor Takeuchi Masaharu of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo conducted an international comparative survey on cultured meat in five countries - Japan, Singapore, Australia, Denmark, and Italy - and found that more than 5% of people in each country would "like to try cultured meat" if its safety was guaranteed and it tasted as good as beef. The results of the study were presented at the 5th Cellular Agriculture Conference and the 8th Conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, held in Tokyo at the end of August.
弘前大学によると、調査は2023年12月と2024年2～3月に5カ国の20歳から59歳までの男女計4,416人を対象にインターネット経由で実施した。その結果、培養肉を試しに食べてみたいかどうかについては、日本で32％、シンガポールで60％、オーストラリアで44％、デンマークで41％、イタリアで54％が「全くそう思う」、「ややそう思う」と答えた。
When the conditions were added that the safety of edible cultured meat be guaranteed and that it tasted as good as beef, the percentage of people who answered "completely agree" or "somewhat agree" jumped to 50% in Japan, 66% in Singapore, 51% in Australia, 57% in Denmark, and 64% in Italy.
Cultured meat is artificial meat made by culturing animal cells outside the body. Research into cultured meat is progressing in various countries in preparation for food crises caused by population explosions in developing countries. Those who think cultured meat will solve the world's food crisis were 46% in Japan, 49% in Singapore, 32% in Australia, 42% in Denmark, and 38% in Italy.
