{"id":170494,"date":"2025-09-20T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:39:15","slug":"lab-grown-meat-and-other-cellular-agricultural-products-face-environmental-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170494\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab grown meat and other cellular agricultural products face environmental challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCellular agriculture has the potential to be more sustainable in areas such as water recycling and renewable energy use, if pharmaceutical-grade components are replaced with food- or feed-grade alternatives for cell proliferation and differentiation,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.aston.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/eirini-theodosiou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dr. Eirini Theodosiou<\/a>, a senior lecturer in chemical and biochemical engineering at Aston University.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite promising results, current LCAs [life cycle assessments] depend heavily on assumptions due to the lack of commercial-scale production. These assumptions can drastically impact outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recent study claimed cultivated meat has 25 times the carbon footprint of beef,<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsfoodscitech.4c00281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">5<\/a>\u201d said Tuomisto. \u201cBut the study assumed all ingredients needed to meet pharmaceutical-grade sterility \u2013 an unnecessary and unrealistic assumption for food-grade production that inflated the energy consumption and, consequently, the carbon footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relative sustainability of cultivated meat ultimately depends on how we model these systems and what we compare them to,\u201d concluded Tuomisto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/articles\/will-cellular-agriculture-deliver-on-its-sustainability-promise-403503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCellular agriculture has the potential to be more sustainable in areas such as water recycling and renewable energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-170494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}