Response to Lab Grown Meat Study

This article, "Meat from Scratch" by Stephen Ornes, explains how scientists are working on the production of meat made in a lab rather than meat made by killing animals. This idea of lab grown meat will be very beneficial to the environment in the future.

One way this will be beneficial to the future is it will save our decreasing land and diminishing trees. In the article it states, "The population of the planet is increasing, which boosts the demand for meat. The amount of land available for raising livestock probably wont be able to meet the increasing demand for much longer." This shows that by using this lab engineered meat we can keep the trees we need to give us carbon dioxide and save precious land that we could be using for other things.

Another way that lab grown meat can be beneficial to the environment is it can help stop the polluting of our soil with pesticides, and the production of greenhouse gases. Stephen Ornes writes in the article that, "Moreover, raising animals for food can take a toll on the environment. The practice increases pollution and boosts levels of greenhouse gases, which increase global warming." This is an example of the fact that that killing animals to make our meat hurts our earth and contributes to all the other factors of global warming as well. If we use lab grown meat perhaps the issue of global warming could decrease and help to save our ozone. 

The fact that we must kill animals to get our meat right now is harming the environment around us. Using non grown lab meat is causing precious land around us to disappear and trees that provide us with carbon dioxide to vanish. Non lab grown meat is also adding to the pollution of our soil and production of greenhouse gases. With lab grown meat though, we can help to prevent all these things from happening and save the environment. Possibly the production of engineered meat will cause other problems due to chemicals that they are using, but that's a question for future studies.