Humans have long excelled at manipulating their environment to increase the amount of food an ecosystem produces, from burning underbrush to encourage the growth of berries or damming a stream to create a fishpond. The most extreme form of this survival strategy is crop agriculture, where people re-engineer an entire ecosystem to serve the needs of a few edible plants. Over the past century farmers have taken this strategy even further by using chemistry to enhance nutrient acquisition and pest control for our crops.
Assessment of consumer sentiment regarding lab-grown meat options
Quotes from Purdue University, April 10, 2024 The most recent edition of the Consumer Food Insights Report presents an analysis by Joseph Balagtas, a distinguished professor in the field of agricultural economics...
