Lab-Grown Meat

Meat Without the Animal

Just last week, the FDA approved lab-grown meat for the first time.

Lab-grown meat — by chemical make-up — is meat, without the inhumanity of factory farming and the negative environmental implications of livestock. This innovation is not a veggie burger, an impossible burger, or any other vegetable dressed up to replicate the taste of meat, it is by definition — meat.

Leading cultivated meat companies are taking one animal cell and combining it with nutrients in a bioreactor that turns that cell into a steak, chicken breast, turkey, fish, pork, etc.

‍FAO reports that cows themselves produce the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the entire United States.

‍According to Gallup, only 5% of Americans are vegetarian, and these numbers haven’t changed since 2012. Meat is of cultural value to Americans and convincing them to switch to a veggie alternative is a long shot, if not statistically impossible.

Lab-grown meat allows meat lovers to stick to what they know and love without harming the planet in doing so.

‍In the comments section of an Atlantic report on this topic, the CMO for Change Food, an alternative dairy company, added:
- Animal agriculture already occupies 1/3 of all ice-free land on Earth.
- If the world adopted an average US diet, we would need 178% of Earth's land to supply it.
- Livestock is the leading driver of tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss, freshwater use, waterways and ocean pollution and agricultural emissions.
- Meat and dairy demand continues to rise and is projected to increase 70% by 2050.

A job “well done” (pun intended) to the companies leading this charge: Ark Biotech, Upside Foods, Good Meat, SuperMeat, Mosa Meat, Balletic Foods, BlueNalu, Finless Foods, Just, Mission Barns, New Age Meats, and Wildtype.