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‘Cultured meat is not inherently better for the environment than conventional beef’ ...
Why there’s debate. Proponents of lab-grown meat envision a future where the world can enjoy all of the same foods they’ve always loved in a climate-friendly, cruelty-free way.
Lab-grown meat has been hailed as the future, a more ethical and environmentally friendly option than factory farm meat. Unfortunately, the hype is mostly an illusion, writes Alice Driver.
Cultured meat production allows the biological processes that normally occur within an animal to occur without the animal. Since cultured meat is grown in a controlled, artificial environment, some have commented that cultured meat more closely resembles hydroponic vegetables, rather than genetically modified vegetables. [208]
Examples of environmental impacts of animal agriculture: Meat production is a main driver of deforestation in Venezuela; Pigs in intensive farming; Testing Australian sheep for exhaled methane production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture; Farms often pump their animal waste directly into a large lagoon, which has environmental ...
Food developers can use cells from livestock, poultry seafood or any other animal in the food production process, according to the FDA.
The In Vitro Meat Consortium holds the first international conference on the production of in vitro meat. [11] 2008: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offers a $1 million prize to the first group to make a commercially viable lab-grown chicken by 2012. [5] 2011: The company Modern Meadow, aimed at producing cultured leather and meat ...
But lab-grown meats have the added complication that the process to produce lab-grown meat is very expensive. And it's a very capital- and technology-intensive process, in a way that the plant ...