Cultured meat is meat grown using tissue engineering techniques. Cultured meat would eventually replace regular meat! Hanna Tuomisto of Oxford University notes this study found that the environmental impacts of cultured meat could be substantially lower than those of meat produced in the conventional way. Cultured meat could potentially be produced with up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions, 45% less energy, 99% lower land use, and 96% lower water use than conventional meat. http://venitism.blogspot.com
These calculations are based on a process, using Cyanobacteria hydrolysate as a nutrient and energy source for growing muscle cells. At the moment this sort of tissue engineering technology is confined to the laboratory, but the researchers estimated what the various costs would be for producing 1000kg of cultured meat using a scaled-up version of the technology compared to the costs associated with livestock reared conventionally.
In comparison to conventionally-produced European meat, the team estimate cultured meat would involve approximately 7-45% lower energy use, 78-96% lower greenhouse gas emissions, 99% lower land use, and 82-96% lower water use depending on the type of meat. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Tuomisto's research shows that cultured meat could be part of the solution to feeding the world's growing population and at the same time cutting emissions and saving both energy and water. Simply put, cultured meat is, potentially, a much more efficient and environmentally-friendly way of putting meat on the table.
The calculations do not currently take into account additional savings from, for instance, the lower energy costs of transport and refrigeration of cultured meat compared to the conventional variety. Land freed up from farming could be reforested or used for other carbon sequestration purposes, further lowering the carbon footprint of cultured meat. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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