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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

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Jonathan Rand, who is part of the biotechnology business unit at CPI, agreed that reducing the amount of farmland used for animal agriculture by using more cultivated meats could have a "massive" impact on the wider environment. warming unless urgent action is taken to tackle methane-intensive foods, such as red meat.

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Study: Replacing fifth of beef in diets with fungi-based 'meat' could halve deforestation

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By switching to plant-based beef alternatives it is possible to reduce the number of cattle worldwide, which in turn cuts methane emissions from the cows themselves, as well as nitrous oxide emissions from fertilising feed or manure management, he explained. said Popp.

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Gene editing could help save the planet — if scientists can avoid the typos

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On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. Department of Agriculture program to assess the risks of biotech, her team first verified that the hornless trait was being passed down through generations of cattle. Funded by a U.S.