Italy is set to ban lab-grown meat – here’s why it should think again
growing meat from cells can have a similar – and sometimes even worse – environmental footprint. Cellular food technologies generate more carbon dioxide or CO2 (up to 22.1kg of CO2 per kg of meat) than conventional cattle farms at present (which produce up to 5.4kg CO2). This is largely because maintaining the right conditions for cell growth in a laboratory consumes a lot of energy. Lab-grown meat does, however, produce substantially less methane than conventional cattle farming.
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