Reza Ovissipour wants to make meat. Earth’s population is projected to reach 10 billion people by 2050. To feed everyone, “we have to increase our food production by one hundred percent and our meat production by seventy percent,” says Ovissipour, a food scientist at Virginia Tech. “Our current agricultural practices are not sustainable enough to provide that much food for people, so we need to find other ways to produce food.”
Test-tube meat could be the sustainable and ethical way forward
Lab-grown meat Since the unveiling of a laboratory-produced meatball in 2016, UPSIDE Foods created the world’s first lab-grown chicken filet and duck à l'orange. Roughly 45-50% of the world’s land surface area...