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.”
Would you eat a burger made in a petri dish? Why people feel disgusted by cultured meat
Cultured meat—real animal flesh produced from in vitro cell cultures, without the need to raise animals—is now poised to become publicly available. Compared to conventional meat, cultured meat offers environmental benefits in its production...
