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Anticipatory Life Cycle Analysis of In Vitro Biomass Cultivation for Cultured Meat Production in the United States
Abstract
Cultured, or in vitro, meat consists of edible biomass grown from animal stem cells in a factory, or carnery. In the coming decades, in vitro biomass cultivation could enable the production of meat without the need to raise livestock. Using an anticipatory life cycle analysis framework, the study described herein examines the environmental implications of this emerging technology and compares the results with published impacts of beef, pork, poultry, and another speculative analysis of cultured biomass. While uncertainty ranges are large, the findings suggest that in vitro biomass cultivation could require smaller quantities of agricultural inputs and land than livestock; however, those benefits could come at the expense of more intensive energy use as biological functions such as digestion and nutrient circulation are replaced by industrial equivalents. From this perspective, large-scale cultivation of in vitro meat and other bioengineered products could represent a new phase of industrialization with inherently complex and challenging trade-offs.
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- Authors
- Mattick, C. S., Landis, A. E., Allenby, B. R., & Genovese, N. J.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2015-09-18
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 11941-11949
- ISSN
- 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5851
- OpenAlex
- W2220742959
- Cited by
- 382
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 11.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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