Clever Carnivore hosts private tastings of cultivated pork in the West Coast

Cultivated Meat & Seafood

Clever Carnivore hosts private tastings of cultivated pork in the West Coast

Rafaela Sousa

8 August 2025

Clever Carnivore hosts private tastings of cultivated pork in the West Coast

Chicago-based start-up Clever Carnivore has taken its cultivated pork products to the West Coast for the first time, hosting private tastings in Palo Alto and San Francisco.

The events brought together investors, chefs and food industry stakeholders to sample the company’s cultivated bratwursts.

The prototype bratwursts featured a hybrid formulation containing 10% cultivated pork cells, combined with plant-based ingredients. This approach – common in the cultivated meat space – helps reduce costs and improve scalability while maintaining flavour and texture.

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"Everyone was impressed by the delicious product, but even more so by our low production costs and scalable, modular process," said Clever Carnivore in a LinkedIn post. "With ultra-high-growth cells and negligible-cost media, we're showing that cultivated meat can be made at scale and produced profitably."

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