Any of our political leaders who are concerned about climate change, which ought to be all of them, should support increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For readers who are unaware, the new protein is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. Scientists believe, when the technology is fully developed, cultivated meat will require a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that slaughtered meat does.
Animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of climate change, an inconvenient truth serious environmentalists must reckon with. Cellular agriculture represents a scalable solution to this problem. Ecologically-conscious politicians at the state and federal level should allocate more government money toward cultivated-meat development. Let’s establish cellular-agriculture research centers at universities across the country.
Jon Hochschartner, Granby