[12] Other participants include Temasek, Skyviews Life Science and an international consortium of food giants Thai Union, BRF, and CJ CheilJedang.

[13] Additional participants include existing investors like Strauss Group, Cargill, Vis Vlires New Protein, Peregrine Ventures and CPT Capital.

[14] In September 2021, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio announced that he had funded Mosa Meat and Aleph Farms for undisclosed amounts of money, stating: 'One of the most impactful ways to combat the climate crisis is to transform our food system.

The agreements were signed with BRF in Brazil, Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, Thai Union in Thailand and CJ CheilJedang in South Korea.

[20] The cellular agriculture technique used by Aleph Farms for their cultured meat is based on a process naturally occurring in cows to regrow and build muscle tissue.

[21][22] The company isolates the cells responsible for this process and grows them in bioreactors, in the same conditions as inside the cow, to form muscle tissue typical to steaks.

[23][24][25] To mimic the natural environment and the 3D structure, cultivated meat companies, and Aleph Farms in particular, use a scaffold which is required to achieve the appropriate characteristics that allow cell adhesion and subsequent proliferation and tissue development.

Like-for-like pieces of muscle (e.g. steak) require a system containing multiple cell types growing in an organised manner, on a structure that is similar to the extracellular matrix, composed mainly by collagen.

It involves the printing of actual living cells that are then incubated to grow, differentiate, and interact, in order to acquire the texture and qualities of a real steak.

Together, the entities will conduct a comparative study focused on the US, Europe and the Global South, examining different types of livestock systems (intensive and extensive) and exploring the impacts and potential benefits cultivated meat could bring to the table.

Based on the findings, they will develop tailored business models that include synergies between cultivated meat and traditional livestock farming systems in each of these regions.

The focus of the program is on developing a technological platform for the production of cultivated beef steaks in a process that consumes a significantly smaller portion of the resources needed to raise an entire animal for meat.