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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]
Food developers can use cells from livestock, poultry seafood or any other animal in the food production process, according to the FDA.
Post estimated that if the traditional meat industry were to be entirely replaced by lab-grown meat, the global cattle population could be reduced from 0.5 billion to about 30,000. [7] In 2016 he was selected to join the SingularityU The Netherlands faculty due to his pioneering work in cultured meat and the sustainability of food production. [9]
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 ...
Van Eelen studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam after the war and after attending a lecture on the preservation of meat, he came up with the idea of growing meat in a laboratory. Van Eelen was not a vegetarian, but cared strongly about the way that animals are treated and felt that "[g]rowing meat without inflicting pain seemed a ...