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The next innovation: clean protein (infographic)
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The crux of the cultivated meat feasibility debate.
The production of meat from an animal causes many problems: animal suffering, environmental impact (pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change) and infectious disease risks. These problems of animal-based meat are related to the organs of the animal (as shown in this … Lees verder
Big is beautiful. On the dangers of too much distrust in big institutions and high-tech solutions.
Imagine a covid19 pandemic without big institutions such as governments, tech companies and pharmaceutical companies. We would rely on personal, voluntary behavioral change such as social distancing and washing hands, added with low tech solutions such as face masks. These … Lees verder
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Tags: anti-vaccination, cell-based meat, cellular agriculture, effective activism, GMO, nuclear energy, rationality, technology
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Clean technology innovation as the most cost-effective climate action
Main takeaways Funding research and development of clean technologies, in particular clean protein and clean energy, is probably the most cost-effective method to avoid dangerous climate change. Clean protein is animal-free protein such as cell-based meat and fermentation-based dairy and … Lees verder
Towards zero harm and more sustainability: animal-free and land-free food
If we take into consideration animal suffering – not only of livestock animals but also wild animals and invertebrates – agriculture is likely humanity’s most harmful activity. Looking at animal agriculture: 70 billion farm animals are slaughtered every year, plus … Lees verder
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Tags: Alternative protein, cell-based meat, land-free food, sustainable agriculture
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Our three most harmful activities and how to minimize them
Does your existence contribute positively or negatively to the world? Of course, you can help other people and make people happier in all kinds of ways. But if during your life, you cause more harm than benefits, then your net … Lees verder
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Tags: cell-based meat, cellular agriculture, clean energy, clean meat, indoor farming, vertical agriculture
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Why cell-based meat will be better (infographic)
I made an infographic, why we can expect that cell-based meat will be much better than animal-based meat. You can support open source scientific cell-based meat research and development by donating to New Harvest and the Good Food Institute.
Opposing cell-based meat: a serious irrationality in the animal rights movement
A few years ago, for the first time I changed my mind about an important issue: genetic modification (GMOs). As a member of the environmental movement that is strongly opposed against GMOs, that change of mind was not easy. In … Lees verder
The extreme cost-effectiveness of cell-based meat R&D
Updated October 2020: improved calculations. In previous articles, I argued that supporting research and development of cell-based meat technologies could be perhaps the most important strategy to protect animal rights and improve animal welfare (with a possible exception of research … Lees verder
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Veganmodernism: the end of veganism?
For an online presentation, see here. Just like the environmental movement gave birth to ecomodernism, the vegan movement can give birth to veganmodernism. Ecomodernism focuses on technological innovations (e.g. clean energy, genetically modified organisms,…) to decrease our environmental impact, rather … Lees verder
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Stijn Bruers, the rational ethicist 