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| Yes, this chicken was never alive |
Hello, welcome back to my blog! Today I wanted to splatter about something I've been researching. If you've been keeping up with my recent posts you may have noticed a trend in my writing (it's been mostly about the food industry).
Many of us know the Earth's environment has been on the decline, but not many single out the food industry as a major source of it's worsening condition. In searching for solutions, I encountered that scientists are currently developing lab-grown meat (aka cultivated meat). The meat in the picture above is a product of cultivated meat. Doesn't it look good? I thought the idea sounded gross but now I don't see why it would be.
This meat is nearly identical to meat that comes straight from the bones of an animal. In fact, nobody seems to think the taste is any different!
How it works is that cells are harvested from existing animals and are then replicated outside the body of the animal in vats called bioreactors. Then the collection of cells in the vats are then taken and processed into meat.
At first this solution seemed very promising; In comparison to conventional meat practices, the cultivation of meat uses less water, land, and chemicals (by a huge margin). However, there is uncertainty of whether it would severely decrease or increase greenhouse gas emissions. Also this method of producing meat is very expensive (as many start up technologies are) and is only available to consumers in select restaurants.
In the future I don't see why this technology wouldn't improve. As of right now, the system may not be able to be scaled to feed large numbers of people but there are still decades of development left for it to improve.
Anyways I hope this gives you something to think about. I would say see you in the next blog, but this marks the end of my blogging journey. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the journey! :)
How it works is that cells are harvested from existing animals and are then replicated outside the body of the animal in vats called bioreactors. Then the collection of cells in the vats are then taken and processed into meat. 
Hi Sofia, it think it’s crazy that technology has become so advanced to the point where you can duplicate genetics to make something with out it coming directly from the source. This is cool for making food without endangering a population of an animal but can be dangerous since sometimes it doesn’t have the key nutrients people need to survive.
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