Solving environmental, food, and animal welfare issues with cultured meat technology
To talk about him, you have to start with important issues like climate change, the food crisis, and animal welfare. This is because he is taking on the challenge of solving these global problems. By 2050, the world's population will reach 9.8 billion people. As the world's population grows, so does meat consumption. Corporate animal farms are a response to this, but they are causing many problems, including animal welfare. First of all, the “bang for the buck” is not good. It takes 2.7 kilograms of feed to produce 450 grams of beef. The amount of meat produced by slaughter is small compared to the amount of feed. In 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported that 18 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions come from corporate animal farming systems. That's more than all cars, ships, trains, and airplanes combined. In the book The Birth of Meat Without Death (2021), the authors argue that we need to reduce meat consumption to make t