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where technology gives us the ability to harvest meat without actually killing or harvesting
the animal itself, whereas the video mentions using cell culture technology to culture
chicken and cow meat. The innovation is giving the world an opportunity to reduce
agricultural stress by making the meat in a lab. As the earth would be unable to handle
The technology itself is still years behind before it could actually flood into the
market due to it’s expensive price, funky texture, and growth rate problem. Yet there are
already some conflict from the meat industry as they’re lobbying the government to label
the meat as “lab meat” because meat should solely come from animals, not from animal
cells grown in a lab. They argued that this labelling will give the “real” meat industry a fair
standing ground in terms of marketing and branding. This showed that the meat industry
growing, and more sustainable. It’s deemed more sustainable due to the fact that it
the earth's climate condition and open up for a more sustainable approach towards
agriculture.
The agricultural world will be more sustainable as more land and water are available
environment improving solutions. Corn that has long been used as an animal feed could be
repurposed as the substrate to create ethanol responsible for vehicle fuel. However, the
enterprises controlling the production of lab grown meat shouldn’t be granted full
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monopoly towards the market as it might affect the food security and safety. Furthermore,
transparency should also be maintained as the community should exactly know what they
are consuming and it should comply with the regulations from governing bodies such as
the FDA. The transparency will provide sufficient proof that the process fulfills some
cultural restrictions such as halal and kosher thus also improving their livelihood.
grow out an actual animal itself which can grow to a full size animal and still need to be
grown and slaughtered at the end of the day to be consumed. Whereas the cell culture
technology does not require any slaughtering and huge land area to grow and harvest the
meat of the animal, although IVF, AI and ET has the edge to be cheaper and is already
available. In summary this technology is proposed to reduce the land area of agriculture