Sustainable eating: Will politics slow adoption of cultivated foods and other technological innovations?

Credit: Eat Just
Credit: Eat Just

Cultivated meat is grown and harvested without traditional animal agriculture. Aย life cycle analysisย of the cultivated meat industry by CE Delft, which was commissioned by the Good Food Institute and European animal rights group GAIA,ย cultivated meat could causeย up to 92% less global warming, 93% less air pollution, use up to 95% less land and 78% less water, compared to conventional beef production.

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Eat Justโ€™s [CEO Josh] Tetrick said the company, which makes plant-based Just Egg, the top-selling egg substitute in the U.S., has done policy work behind the scenes for years to get around personal politics. The company, he said, welcomes leaders โ€” governors, senators, department and ministry heads โ€” to show not just what Eat Just can do in terms of food, but what the company can do for governments.

โ€œI want a senator from X state to understand what making meat and eggs is, without requiring an animal,โ€ he said. โ€œHow that actually can mean thousands, tens of thousands of jobs in their particular state.

โ€œI want a minister or a prime minister of a country to understand that investing lots of energy in building a new meat infrastructure is good for food security,โ€ Tetrickย continued. โ€œItโ€™s really important to build that kind of resiliency. Itโ€™s a way to develop their economy.โ€

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