At this year’s RE:WIRED Green event, food scientists and environmental justice activists mapped out how we can end world hunger and preserve our planet.
A new report questions the dramatic environmental claims that alternative proteins can save the planet, disrupt the status quo, or challenge the power of the corporate food industry.
Perfect Day and other companies making milk with cellular agriculture promise animal-free, lower-carbon products through technology. They may also benefit from a lack of consumer understanding about the science.
It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.
Lab-grown insect meat, fed on plants and genetically modified for maximum growth, nutrition and flavor, could be a viable and even a “superior" green alternative for high volume, healthy food production.
