As an animal welfare organisation, FOUR PAWS appreciates and supports any scientific progress which aims to minimise or eliminate the suffering of farmed animals in intensive farming systems and to reduce the number of slaughtered animals. Cultivated meat is poised to become a competitor of factory farming and possibly revolutionise the food industry. Although ACF45 growth media are already available and used by some companies, the use of animal components in the nutrient media or carrier scaffolds cannot be ruled out for the entire industry.46 FOUR PAWS considers cultivated meat as an alternative to conventional meat only if the use of Foetal Bovine Serum and other cruelly derived animal components as well as further factors compromising animal welfare are categorically ruled out. FOUR PAWS is closely observing the developments and whole process as future consequences for farm animals are still not predictable to the full extent.