ava on Nostr: Lab-grown meat and cloning are not the same thing. Lab-grown meat is developed from ...
Lab-grown meat and cloning are not the same thing. Lab-grown meat is developed from animal cells that are cultured or grown in a lab and produces real meat without raising or slaughtering animals.
Factory farming already has a massive land footprint. Lab-grown meat and transitioning to a plant-based diet will significantly reduce it.
• Half of Earth's habitable land is used for agriculture
• Of all agricultural land:
> 77% is used for livestock (grazing and animal feed)
> Yet this produces only 18% of global calories and 37% of protein
• 74% of land livestock are raised in factory farms
• Over 90% of farmed animals globally live in factory farms
The inefficiency is striking—we're using most of our agricultural land to produce a relatively small portion of our food. What we're seeing is that shifting to plant-based agriculture could reduce global agricultural land use by 75% while still feeding the world's population. "In general, it takes around 100 times more land to produce animal-based meats than it does to produce plant-based alternatives."
Sources:
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
https://pbfinstitute.org/industrial-animal-agricultures-large-footprint-on-global-land/
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-estimates
Factory farming already has a massive land footprint. Lab-grown meat and transitioning to a plant-based diet will significantly reduce it.
• Half of Earth's habitable land is used for agriculture
• Of all agricultural land:
> 77% is used for livestock (grazing and animal feed)
> Yet this produces only 18% of global calories and 37% of protein
• 74% of land livestock are raised in factory farms
• Over 90% of farmed animals globally live in factory farms
The inefficiency is striking—we're using most of our agricultural land to produce a relatively small portion of our food. What we're seeing is that shifting to plant-based agriculture could reduce global agricultural land use by 75% while still feeding the world's population. "In general, it takes around 100 times more land to produce animal-based meats than it does to produce plant-based alternatives."
Sources:
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
https://pbfinstitute.org/industrial-animal-agricultures-large-footprint-on-global-land/
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-estimates