Dear Editor,
I think most people know, deep down, that the way we treat animals, especially those we eat, is wrong. What they may not be aware of is a developing technology that will make aligning our morals with our dietary habits easier. I’m talking about cultivated meat, which is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. Even low adoption rates of the protein would save billions of aquatic and land animals every year.
Unfortunately, cultivated meat is still too expensive to mass produce. This can be overcome with further research. Compassionate legislators should support a significant increase of state and federal funding into cultivated-meat development. Let’s build facilities like the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture at schools across the country. As dark as things feel now, the possibility remains of building a better world.
Jon Hochschartner, Granby, CT