Could Test Tube Meat Change the World?
This fascinating article describes eight ways in-vitro meat will change the world, including the ability to taste endangered animals and even extinct species like dinosaurs!
But “future flesh” could also eliminate 51% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions (and 90% of choking victims). A quarter of the earth’s land is currently used to grow meat, along with 8% of the world’s water. (And 80% of Amazon de-forestation is caused by beef ranching.) So besides being cheaper, it’d also be greener.
And it’s healthier. In-vitro meat could also reduce animal-to-human diseases while eliminating artery-clogging saturated fats from our diets, along with hormones and mercury (as well as e. coli and salmonella).
It’s in the works now, and at half the price of regular meat, “This will grind the $2 trillion global live-meat industry to a halt” and “will be socially transformative, like automobiles, cinema, vaccines.”