Aleph Farms has announced the launch of its ‘Aleph Zero’ programme. The project aims to advance food security by producing meat anywhere, independent of climate change and of availability of local natural resources.
Ultimately, Aleph aims to enable the production meat even in the most harsh and remote extraterrestrial environments, such as space.
The company is securing strategic partnerships with technology companies and space agencies for long term collaborative research and development contracts.
These programmes will leverage the company’s knowledge of cell biology, tissue engineering, and food science to establish ‘BioFarms’ in extraterrestrial environments, enabling the company to eventually apply the lessons learned in space to earthbound sites.
“‘Aleph Zero’ represents the mathematical symbol of the smallest infinite number, and how Aleph Farms brings space infinity closer by supporting deep-space exploration and colonization of new planets. The term also represents the company’s vision for producing meat with near-zero natural resources,” said Didier Toubia, Co-Founder and CEO of Aleph Farms.
“The constraints imposed by deep-space-exploration — the cold, thin environment and the circular approach — force us to tighten the efficiency of our meat production process to much higher sustainability standards.”
“The program ‘Aleph Zero’ reflects our mission of producing quality, delicious meat locally where people live and consume it, even in the most remote places on Earth like the Sahara Desert or Antarctica, providing unconditional access to high-quality nutrition to anyone, anytime, anywhere,” said Toubia. “When people will live on the Moon or Mars, Aleph Farms will be there as well."
