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Why Cellular Agriculture?

Compared to traditional animal agricultural practices, cellular agriculture has fewer environmental impacts, requires less resources and time, and produces safer, more ethical food.

Environment

Greenhouse gas emissions

Disruption of traditional animal agriculture by cellular agriculture would eliminate 32.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

Land area

80% of the land area currently used for animal agriculture can be freed - naturally capturing and storing an enormous quantity of carbon through passive reforestation.

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Waste

Cellular agriculture eradicates 1.75 billion tons of animal waste each year, drastically reducing the impact of groundwater and organic pollutants.

Efficiency

By 2030, cellular agriculture will be 100 times more land efficient, 25 times more feedstock efficient, 20 times more time efficiency, and 10 times more water efficient than animal agriculture.

Health

No contamination

Cellular agriculture eliminates the risk of both pathogenic and fecal contamination; commonplace in current animal agricultural practices.

Lower global famine risk

Without requiring access to large plots of geographically dependent land, cellular agriculture reduces the risk of famine due to natural disaster, inaccessibility, and more.

No added hormones

The hormones used today to accelerate the production of animal agriculture are not needed in a cellular agriculture system and could be completely eliminated from our diets.

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No antibiotics; No superbugs

Because antibiotics are unnecessary in cellular agriculture, the risk of antibiotic resistant superbugs stemming from animal agriculture is eliminated.

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Feeding the growing population

As the world's population continues to grow, the scalability of cellular agriculture offers a viable solution to feed our planet.

Welfare

Animal suffering

By eliminating the need for live animals, cellular agriculture eradicates the suffering of millions of animals across the globe.

Biodiversity loss

As deforestation from animal agriculture is reduced, so too is the risk of global biodiversity loss, strengthening our planet's ecosystem.

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Cheaper food

With the lack of stability and sustainability in animal agriculture, cellular agriculture products, unlike their traditional counterparts, will only decrease in price.

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2. Gasteratos, Kristopher. (2019). 90 Reasons to Consider Cellular Agriculture. Harvard University Library http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38573490