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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.
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 ...
In 1999, activists burned the biotech lab of Michigan State University, destroying the results of years of work and property worth $400,000. [100] In 1987, the ice-minus strain of P. syringae became the first genetically modified organism (GMO) to be released into the environment [101] when a strawberry field in California was sprayed with the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...