Report: Cultivated Meat Could Provide Opportunities for Some UK Farmers
A report by the UK’s Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has investigated how the widespread adoption of cultivated meat could impact UK farmers. The results indicate that under the right circumstances, cultivated meat could provide opportunities for some farmers, such as supplying animal cells or raw materials for cultivated meat production. It may also be possible for farmers to turn crop or animal byproducts into an income stream by selling them as cultivated meat ingredients. According to the report, using these byproducts as amino acid sources could reduce the cost and environmental footprint of cultivated meat production. Other farmers may be able to gain private investment in order to produce cultivated meat on their own farms. However, it is believed that this would cost about 30% …
