Cultured meat could be on the EU market ‘as early as 2022’
15/01/2020
After UK environmentalist George Monbiot’s controversial “Apocalypse Cow” documentary recently suggested that we may soon see the end of all farming, EURACTIV took a look at cultured meat to see what it is and where we’re at.
The over-consumption of meat from intensive, industrial livestock farming is increasingly being recognised as a serious problem.
According to the FAO, the livestock sector is responsible for 14.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, one-third of the world’s cultivated land is used to produce the billion tonnes of fodder required to feed these animals, mainly soy and maize monocultures, and 23% of our globally-available freshwater is used for livestock farming.