Polytechnique Montreal’s Sustainability Office claims that beef is 10 times more polluting than chicken, and that beef is a source of methane pollution.
The Biden-Harris Defense Department claims the money is not being used to develop fake meat, but the grant will fund a facility that creates the same ingredient used to make lab-grown ‘meat.’
The World Economic Forum has urged governments to join in a coordinated effort with corporations to drive consumer behavior change toward lab-grown meats and ‘alternative protein’ sources to ‘decarbonize the global economy.’
The answer to food safety and security lies in a decentralized food system that connects communities with farmers growing real food sustainably and distributing it locally.
The U.S. food producer will build in America 'the first at-scale facility of its kind to upcycle food manufacturing byproducts into high-quality insect proteins and lipids which will primarily be used in the pet food, aquaculture, and livestock industries.'
The fake meat industry claims to be environmentally friendly, but researchers from UC Davis have warned that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 times more CO2 than traditional animal husbandry.