The Future of Food: Lab-Culture Sirloin?
If you’re disturbed by industrial livestock operations, cheap-diner mystery meats, head cheese or hats of meat, is the concept of lab-grown meat any more appealing? Me, I’m happy to mostly dispense with real-meat-based hamburgers, steaks and bacon entirely, but an organization called New Harvest makes some compelling arguments for the future of meat produced in vitro (though it’s not genetically modified), rather than from an animal:
“Arguably, the production of cultured meat is less unnatural than raising farm animals in intensive confinement systems, injecting them with synthetic hormones, and feeding them artificial diets made up of antibiotics and animal wastes,” states New Harvest’s FAQ. “At the same time, the conventional production of meat has led to a number of unnatural problems, including high rates of ischemic heart disease and foodborne illness, as well as soil and water pollution from farm animal wastes.”
What do you think, yea or nay? Check out New Harvest to read more and see what you decide.
Image credit: Hats of Meat.
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