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.
The role of gene editing in reducing the cost of cell-based meat
Quotes from the Genetic Literacy Project, February 12, 2024 According to a study by the University of California, Berkeley, producing meat in a lab could slash emissions by 96 percent. However, the...
