I was going to say, all the articles and science I saw on lab meat previously had it consuming far, far less resources than the traditional beef industry. Definitely going to read more about it but I’m still team lab meat for now.
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“But in a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, researchers at the University of California…” That’s not a good start to their point.
The comments on that preprint by another expert also don’t seem promising on their conclusions of lab grown.
I’ll believe it’s worse than traditional beef when more science substantiates that view. This article isn’t that.
Even if cultivated meat was initially bad for the environment, I’d guess that it would be easy to minimize it’s environmental impact versus traditional meat. There’s only so much you can do to stop cows from belching CO2. However, a factory making vats of cultured meat could install pollution controls to reduce their emissions.
I’d definitely like to see peer reviewed studies backing everything up, but my guess is that cultivated meat will on par with or be better for the environment than traditional meat and will only get better.
