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Food system and technology
2022
Regenesis
George MonbiotArgues for shrinking farmland and for microbial protein.2022Sixty Harvests Left
Philip LymberySoil, industrial farming and what food could look like instead.2021Animal, Vegetable, Junk
Mark BittmanHistory of how the food system was shaped by industry.2020Billion Dollar Burger
Chase PurdyReporting on the race to bring cultivated meat to market.2019Meat Planet
Benjamin Aldes WurgaftAn anthropologist’s critical look at the promises of cultured meat.2018The End of Animal Farming
Jacy Reese AnthisHow scientists, entrepreneurs and activists could build an animal-free food system.2018Clean Meat
Paul ShapiroJournalistic account of the early cultivated meat companies and the people behind them.2014Farmageddon
Philip Lymbery, Isabel OakeshottInvestigation into the true costs of cheap meat.Textbooks and science
2024
Cultivated Meat: Technologies, Commercialization and Challenges
SpringerTechnical overview from the laboratory to industrial scale.2024Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future
Michel Vandenbosch, Philip Lymbery (eds.)Essay collection on the case for cultivated meat.2021Modern Meat
Cellular Agriculture SocietyTextbook on cultivated meat with over 100 contributors.Reports and guides
2024
Media Guide: How to talk about cellular agriculture
Cellular Agriculture AustraliaGuidance for journalists.2023Plano de Ensino para Disciplinas em Proteínas Alternativas
The Good Food Institute BrasilConceptual model for university courses.2023Mapa do Setor de Proteínas Alternativas
The Good Food Institute BrasilMap of the sector in Brazil.2023Key Terms in Cellular Agriculture
Cellular Agriculture AustraliaLanguage guide with preferred and non-preferred terms.2020Glossário de Carne Cultivada
The Good Food Institute BrasilBilingual technical glossary, Portuguese and English.2019Meat: the Future series. Alternative Proteins
World Economic Forum, Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)Argues that North American and European levels of meat consumption, extended to 10 billion people, are incompatible with the UN climate and environment goals, and maps the protein alternatives.2019Formulating With Animal-Free Ingredients
Institute of Food TechnologistsPractical notes on formulation.201990 Reasons to Consider Cellular Agriculture
Kristopher GasteratosThe source of this site’s Reasons page.Articles
2024
A carne já é muito barata, ao contrário do que pensam
Julio Cesar PravaOpinion piece, in Portuguese: animal products are artificially cheap, because their price leaves out subsidies, environmental damage and the suffering of animals.202310 motivos pelos quais a carne cultivada deve superar a carne tradicional
Julio Cesar PravaOpinion piece, in Portuguese, on why cultivated meat should overtake traditional meat.2023Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030
Pelle Sinke et al. (International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment)Projects the 2030 footprint, which depends heavily on using renewable energy.2022Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels
Michael Eisen, Patrick Brown (PLOS Climate)Models the climate effect of phasing out animal farming. One of the authors founded Impossible Foods.2022Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein
Florian Humpenöder et al. (Nature)Replacing 20% of beef with microbial protein by 2050 could halve deforestation and related emissions.2021Scale-up economics for cultured meat
David Humbird (Biotechnology and Bioengineering)Critical techno-economic analysis of the cost of producing at scale.2020Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets
Michael Clark et al. (Science)Shows that food emissions alone could put the climate targets out of reach, even if fossil fuels stopped.2020The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land
Matthew Hayek et al. (Nature Sustainability)Estimates how much carbon could be removed if land used for animal food returned to native vegetation.2020Plant-based and cell-based approaches to meat production
Natalie Rubio, Ning Xiang, David Kaplan (Nature Communications)Compares the science and challenges of the two main routes.2019Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission
Walter Willett et al. (The Lancet)Proposes a planetary health diet for feeding 10 billion people within environmental limits.2018Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
Joseph Poore, Thomas Nemecek (Science)Data from about 38,000 farms: one of the most cited comparisons of the environmental impact of foods.2018The biomass distribution on Earth
Yinon Bar-On, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo (PNAS)The census of life on Earth, which found that livestock far outweigh wild mammals.2018Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture
Neil Stephens et al. (Trends in Food Science & Technology)Overview of what stands between the science and the shelf.2015Anticipatory life cycle analysis of in vitro biomass cultivation for cultured meat production in the United States
Carolyn Mattick et al. (Environmental Science & Technology)A skeptical counterpoint: projects high energy use, comparable to or above some farmed meats.2012Cultured meat from stem cells: Challenges and prospects
Mark Post (Meat Science)Early roadmap by the scientist who presented the first cultivated hamburger in 2013.2011Environmental impacts of cultured meat production
Hanna Tuomisto, M. Joost Teixeira de Mattos (Environmental Science & Technology)The first widely cited estimate of the footprint of cultured meat.Nothing found.