Degradation

Every year in the US alone, around 10 billion land animals are slaughtered within the factory farm system. Industrial animal agriculture is responsible not only for acts of animal cruelty, but for environmental degradation that affects entire ecosystems and for major public health threats like zoonotic diseases (those that jump from animal to human hosts). Ending our reliance on industrial animal agriculture to feed the world can’t be a far-off goal.

So, I am all for innovation, but these far-flung ideas shouldn’t be the face of the cell-cultivated meat movement, at least not until the cell-cultivated versions of staple foods like chicken, pork and beef have been perfected and, more importantly, normalized. Plus they need to be climate-friendly.
–New Scientist