Lab Grown Meat

The environmental impact of livestock production is not great, yet frequently no one explains why. You're left to fill in the blanks while grinning impishly about what they mean when they say stuff like "cows create gasses." In case you were wondering, animal production accounts for 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, or those that can be directly connected to human activity, with 7.1 gigatons of emissions. That's a significant amount. Finding a substitute could significantly help to protect the environment and slow climate change.

Lab-grown beef is one alternative that has promise. While there are obstacles to making it on a large scale and at a competitive price, it's also possible that they can be overcome as technology advances. Lab-grown or produced meat is actual meat, unlike products like Impossible Meat, which is a plant-based meat alternative. With one significant exception—the chicken never existed—whatever it says is, in fact, chicken. Instead, it develops chicken cells from real chickens in a lab. These businesses can grow a hamburger in the same way that medical science may soon be able to grow you a new kidney or lung that you require to survive.

If additional nations implemented legislation, we could all continue to enjoy hamburgers without ever having to slaughter another cow or generate all that trash. Singapore is already on board with farmed chicken.