Meat Atlas: It s time to rethink what we eat
Meat has become cheap to buy in the supermarket. But that comes at a cost to the environment and human health.
Germany is a leading EU pork producer Industrial meat production is not only responsible for precarious working conditions, it also pushes people off their land, leads to deforestation, biodiversity loss and the use of pesticides and is also one of the main drivers of the climate crisis.
Such were the words of Barbara Unmüssig of green think tank, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, at the Berlin presentation of the so-called Meat Atlas 2021.
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San Francisco-based food technology company Eat Just is ready to sell its cultured chicken meat in Singapore. | Eat Just
Cultured Meat Debuts at Singapore Restaurant After gaining regulatory approval for the sale of cultured meat in Singapore, Eat Just s cultivated chicken meat is ready for restaurants.
December 23rd, 2020
Last month, food technology company Eat Just made history when it received regulatory approval to sell cultured meat, real meat created from animal cells, from Singapore’s food agency. In a private tasting event over the weekend, guests experienced the restaurant debut of the brand’s cultured chicken.
The dining experience took place at 1880, a Singapore-based venue that was “founded to inspire conversations that change the world.”
Lab-grown meat to make historic debut in Singapore By PRIME SARMIENTO in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-19 08:18
Singapore s decision to allow the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat will prove a milestone in helping both the land-scarce country and others to sustain food security and help counter climate change, analysts said. An employee of Eat Just looks at grilled fillet made from lab-grown cultured chicken developed by the company. [EAT JUST/REUTERS]
As the first country to approve the manufacture of cell-cultured meat, Singapore can serve as a role model to other countries keen to boost food production using this technology.
IF this year has taught us anything, it is that nothing in life is certain.
So what will life in Ireland look like in a decade? And what else will change in the next ten years?
From transport to food, health to energy, NEIL COTTER finds out what scientists Dr Cara Augustenborg from UCD and University College Cork’s Fionn Rogan think Ireland will be like in 2030.
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The world is set to be very different in 2030Credit: Getty Images - Getty
Big ‘black fields’ will replace green as solar farming is ramped up, Ireland’s bogs will become eco tourist attractions and petrol pumps will make way for charging stations…..welcome to the future.
After tasting cultivated steak produced by Rehovot-based Aleph Farms, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the meat was “delicious and guilt-free,” adding that he couldn’t taste the difference between the cultivated version and conventional beef. “I have directed State Secretary Tzahi Braverman to appoint a coordinator to serve these industries in order to connect and oversee all the stakeholders operating in this field. Israel will become a powerhouse for alternative meat and alternative protein,” he added.
Good Food Institute says Israel is a leader in cultivated meat and called on other countries to invest in the technology. “The Israeli government has turned the country into a nerve center for plant-based and cultivated meat innovation,” GFI Executive Director Bruce Friedrich said. “Prime Minister Netanyahu has thrown the weight of Israel behind this new way of making meat. The EU, China, the US, and other governments should pick up the gauntlet that Mr. Netanyahu jus