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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.
A group of academic scientists criticized the analysis, writing: "We are deeply concerned about the inappropriate methods used in their paper, the lack of ecological context, and the authors' advocacy of how laboratory studies on non-target arthropods should be conducted and interpreted".
Food developers can use cells from livestock, poultry seafood or any other animal in the food production process, according to the FDA.
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]
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 ...
Opinion: Columnist Frank Cerabino writes about DeSantis passing a law in Florida banning lab-created meat as a new way to wage war on climate change.