Homebrew meat club: ‘Clean meat’ start-ups are mushrooming. But Japanese citizen science community Shojinmeat is using an alternative home-based DIY approach to accelerate innovation

“I STARTED THIS whole thing because of science fiction,” says Dr Yuki Hanyu, co-founder of non-profit cultured-meat collective Shojinmeat. “Cell-based meat happens everywhere in manga and anime sci-fi.”