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- Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed cell based meat.This will be a step towards cruelty-free food thereby saving the environment as well as the animals.
- Cell based meat or cellular agriculture aims at creating clean meat.Cell based meat is a process in which a small sample of cells is taken from an animal painlessly and then used to grow meat in a manufacturing facility.
- Currently,there are many environmental concerns arising out of livestock industry and meat consumption such as (a)increased use of water, food and energy to raise livestock (b) large-scale animal husbandry contributing to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions and (c)antibiotic resistance.
- Further,due to rapid increase in population,the meat industry has been facing immense pressure in keeping up with the food requirements.
- Researchers have also cited the predictions from the UN population prospects which said that the current meat industry will not be able to meet the global needs by 2050.
