meat

America’s meat shortage is more serious than your missing hamburgers - Vox The meat supply chain is breaking down, but that’s only part of the story. If you go to Wendy’s this week, there’s a good chance you won’t be able to get a hamburger. Go to the supermarket and you’ll probably see some...

Protein swap: Improve your health and the planet by eating fewer animals and more plants, researchers suggest - Stanford In the campus office of Christopher Gardner, PhD, a nutrition specialist, sits a sculpture of a chicken. It's no ordinary chicken sculpture — the body takes the shape of a...

USDA, FDA to jointly oversee lab-grown meat - Capital Press Livestock groups are encouraged that USDA will have jurisdiction over cell harvest, production and labeling of cell-cultured products but say establishing that authority is just the first step. USDA and the Food and Drug...

Why I Became a Vegetarian (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat) - Awaken Recently, the German Minister banned meat at official functions (HuffPo)… Additionally, Portugal just passed a law which requires public cafeterias to offer at least one vegan option, applying to prisons, schools...

Americans Need to Eat 90% Less Meat for Planet to Survive, Report Says - Global Citizen The average American is on track to eat 222.2 pounds of red meat and chicken this year. Humanity’s growing meat consumption is undermining the planet’s ability to produce food, according to a new report...

Proponents of the "Carnivore Diet" Are Calling for a Food Revolution - Inverse "Is it going to be good for them? No. But that’s their choice." The increasingly popular “carnivore diet” is exactly what it sounds like. Acolytes renounce vegetables, fruit, carbohydrates, and supplements in favor...

Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary - Undark On the whole, the country consumes 28 percent of the world’s meat — twice as much as the United States. And that figure is only set to increase. At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment in the teeming city of...

Please do not try to survive on an all-meat diet - Popular Science Here's what you should know about the latest carnivore trend. If your love of ribeye knows no bounds, perhaps you’d be interested in the carnivore diet. The rules are simple—eat only meat—and the purported benefits seem...

‘Meet your meat’ and the ethics of factory farming - Times of Isreal If the kashrut organizations can ban one unethical way of killing cows, they can revamp the whole system Watching an old episode of Parks and Recreation recently, I came across this short vignette which encapsulates the...

How synthetic biology will — and maybe won’t — change the future of food - The Verge Biologist Christina Agapakis on lab-grown meat, labeling, and sustainability More than a century ago, dairy farmers sounded the alarm on margarine, insisting that it wasn’t really butter, and it therefore...