Charting Climate Impact of Cultured Meat
February 20, 2019
Producing meat by growing animal cells in factories is often promoted as offering a climate benefit by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that drive atmospheric warming. But a new study described here finds the picture less clear, with cultured meat production possibly driving up warming over the long term—yielding all the more reason why, as two scholars of emerging technologies recently noted in Issues, society should start thinking seriously about the full impact of industrially sourced hamburgers.