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Cell-based meat could emit 25 times more than retail beef, study

RESEARCHERS from a renowned university in the United States say traditional meat production is likely to have less of an environmental footprint than producing meat in a lab.

The group from University of California Davis recently did life-cycle assessments on lab-grown meat and compared it to the warming potential of conventional meat. It has released the findings of the report, with the peer-review still to come.

Lab-grown meat, or animal cell-based meat, has been tipped as a more environmentally friendly alternative way of producing protein. But previous Beef Central articles have

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