If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages as climate chaos intensifies

  • Written by: Bianca Le, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages as climate chaos intensifiesCultivated meat burgerMosa Meat, CC BY-SA

It didn’t get much attention when US President Joe Biden launched a biomanufacturing initiative last September.

But it should have. Biomanufacturing is about harnessing nature’s factories – cells – to make just about anything. That includes food. As Biden pointed out,...

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