Cardiologist Uma Valeti Created A Model Of Sustainable Meat Grown In A Lab

Cardiologist Uma Valeti has created a model of sustainable meat sourcing that doesn’t require grazing land, has nothing to do with factory farming, and, in fact, doesn’t harm any animals. That’s because Dr. Valeti has adapted medical technology to grow actual meat in a laboratory setting from cells. He has so much faith in “cultured meat” as the future of food that he started his own company, Memphis Meats, to lead the way into the 21st century and beyond. It’s no joke. In fact, Google co-founder Sergey Brin invested $330,000 in the first lab-grown hamburger.

Sustainability and ecological concerns have long cast a shadow over the ethics of large-scale meat production.pixabay.comAccording to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American consumes around 185 pounds of meat and poultry and 630 pounds of dairy products every year. The carbon and ecological footprint created by the meat industry is not unsubstantial: methane emissions, water consumption, and agricultural chemicals all play a role in altering the planet’s atmosphere and resources. In addition to these larger ecological concerns, the Center for Disease Control has noted that antibiotic use in farm animals has contributed to the rise of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria: the so-called “superbugs” that are untreatable by any means of modern medicine.

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