A young scientist building in cellular agriculture space to end animal suffering and solve climate crisis 🌎
From the time I remember myself, I’ve always cared about what other living beings felt. Always wondered why humans thought that if we discovered DNA, or landed on moon we had the right to take wild animals out of their nature, and entertain kids in zoos or circuits.
Growing up, I became a vegetarian, but still didn’t really understand the way our food production worked, before I learned that:
<aside> 🩸 10 billion animals are slaughtered every year for meat. Right now, when you’re reading this, there’re 100 billion farmed animals living in intense confinement.
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That’s not just about animal welfare. Factory farming contributes to 14,5% of all greenhouse gasses, that’s an equal to the entire transportation sector. We use 77% of all farmland to produce only 18% of world calories.
The inefficiency of producing meat.
Over the last few months, I got obsessed with this problem and the potential solution to tackle it - cellular agriculture 🌱. Instead of growing, feeding, spending land and water on the whole animal, it proposes the idea to grow cells that we only need for meat.
I’ve been reading articles and research papers, watching videos and just learning about how scientists grow meat from stem cells in the labs. It led me to building a project in the space.