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Industrial agriculture is one of the most unsustainable practices of modern civilization, but the answer is not to replace farms with chemistry labs. Grasslands are key to fixing many environmental problems, and herbivores are a necessary part of this ecosystem
Meat substitutes often require water, chemicals and fossil fuel inputs, and in that respect, differ little from conventional agriculture. According to a 2015 study, lab-grown meat actually requires more energy than conventional agriculture
When FDA concluded Impossible Foods’ voluntary GRAS notification for GE yeast-derived “heme” was too inadequate to establish safety, the company withdrew its notification (which is legal) and marketed its meatless burger without the FDA’s sign-off
