The Pros And Cons Of Animal Agriculture

Have you wanted to become a vegetarian but you can't give up eating meat, there is a alternative in vitro meat, In vitro meat, is meat that has never been apart of an animal, here's how it works. They isolate the stem cells from an animal and then have them replicate in a nutritious soup, and we grow them with electric impulses and then you have which could be made into your favorite animal products. This means that no animal has to be killed and in theroy one strain of stem cells from an animal can feed the entire global population.

There has already been an in vitro burger made it was created by Dutch researcher Dr. Mark Post at the University of Maastricht.

Look at our current meat production, it is extremely unsustainable and unhealthy. …show more content…
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction. 2-5 acres of land are needed per cow; Nearly half of the contiguous US is devoted to animal agriculture. A farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces the same amount of waste as a city of 411,000 people.

Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction. One acre of rainforest is cleared every second. The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feed crops. 137 plant, animal and insect species are lost everyday due to rainforest …show more content…
82% of the starving children in the world live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are being eaten by western countries; 50% of the world grain is being eaten by livestock, and we are currently growing enough food that could feed 10 billion people. The average meat eating American is eating 209 pounds of meat each year.

In vitro meat will be a 100% pure muscle and we will have complete control in the production process, instead of all those dangerous saturated fats, we could replace it with good fats like omega 3; we could actually make a hamburger that is good for you. We could make a hamburger that could prevent heart attacks, instead of cause them. In vitro meat production will use 99% less land, create 96% less greenhouse gas emissions, and use 96% less water.

In vitro meat has gotten a lot cheaper since that $325,000 burger made in 2013, and now that same burger can be made at $11, but we are still years away from this being available to buy, researchers have to find a way to scale up the process, to make it viable, so we can get rid of cattle grazing, and the process still relies on some animal products which researchers are hopes to replace with alternatives that work just as

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