{"id":49189,"date":"2019-07-10T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T10:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=49189"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T10:41:25","slug":"answered-what-is-cellular-agriculture-discuss-various-advantages-and-and-disadvantages-of-cellular-agriculture-how-it-can-ensure-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-is-cellular-agriculture-discuss-various-advantages-and-and-disadvantages-of-cellular-agriculture-how-it-can-ensure-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What is Cellular Agriculture? Discuss various advantages and and disadvantages of Cellular Agriculture. How it can ensure food security?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Define cellular agriculture.
Body. <\/strong>Various advantages and disadvantages.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Cellular agriculture is a branch of biology that focus on the production of agriculture products from cell cultures using a combination of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology, and synthetic biology to create and design new methods of producing proteins, fats, and tissues that would otherwise come from traditional agriculture. Various products like artificial muscle proteins, milk, eggs, gelatin, coffee, leather and silk are produced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various advantages of cellular agriculture-<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Less environmental\nimpact-<\/strong> <\/strong>Figures show 70% lower use of resources like land,\nfood grain, water, and thus reduced carbon emissions to produce a kilogram of\nmeat. From an environmental standpoint this means less water is used to produce\nmeat, less methane gas is put into the atmosphere, and it\u2019s overall a much\ncleaner solution than factory farming.<\/li>
  2. Better\nProducts-<\/strong> <\/strong>Another exciting aspect of cellular agriculture is\nthe ability to design and tune what you are making. For instance, you could\nmake meat with fewer saturated fats and more unsaturated fats, or you could\nmake leather of different thicknesses. You could make milk without lactose, or\neggs without cholesterol.<\/li>
  3. It is\nmore sustainable:<\/strong> <\/strong>There is no doubt that it is a more sustainable\nsolution. Unlike conventional animal husbandry that has pretty much reached the\nlimits of its efficiency, cellular agriculture has the potential to improve its\nresource intensiveness over time. It can help make global food production more\nsustainable than it is now.<\/li>
  4. Food\nsecurity-<\/strong> <\/strong>It could enable larger numbers of people to access\nhigher quality nutrition and achieve better health outcomes. There are still\nhundreds of millions of people that don\u2019t have access to food at all, or don\u2019t\nhave enough food. This number is expected to increase to billions in the coming\nyears. Cellular agriculture can help to produce more food to feed the world\u2019s\npeople that still go hungry<\/li>
  5. Healthier\nand cleaner food products<\/strong>– Producers\ncan control the fat and protein content. They can also control the taste and\nother features. If we take fat for example, lab grown meat could be produced to\ncontain more omega-3 fatty acids and less harmful fats. Products are grown in a\nsterile environment, so there is no contamination. This means that the products\nwill be free of many potential diseases. A lot of the antibiotics and drugs\nthat are used to treat sick livestock animals will no longer be necessary.<\/li>
  6. Meet\ndemands of growing population<\/strong>– World\npopulation is expected to grow to between 10 to 13 million people between the\nyears 2050 and 2100. India\u2019s population is also exploding. Lab grown consumables\ncan use to feed many. <\/li>
  7. Reduce\nrisks<\/strong>– <\/strong>It can minimise some risks associated with animal\nfarming such as animal diseases, antibiotics, and growth hormones. Also lab\ngrown meat can be more consistent in terms of quality \u2013 because more is in the\nproducer\u2019s control, lab grown meat may be of a particular standard\/quality more\nconsistently compared to farm grown meat which can vary in quality.<\/li>
  8. Employment\ngeneration<\/strong>– <\/strong>It adds jobs to the economy. Various lab and\nfactory workers, researchers, scientists etc. get new jobs. Further research\nand development industry develop and boost with technological advancements.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Various\ndisadvantages and issues related to cellular agriculture-<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    1. Expensive<\/strong>– <\/strong>It is\nvery expensive to produce. Technology employed and expenditure on research and\ndevelopment increase the cost of the products and make it non-affordable at\npresent.<\/li>
    2. At the cost of animals<\/strong>– <\/strong>It is\ntrue that cultured products save many animals from being slaughtered. However,\nmany of the animals will be used for research and development purposes are\nprobably animals that are on the slaughter lines. Harvesting of animal cells to\nculture require blood of foetuses from slaughtered pregnant cows as the growth\nmedium. So, to mass-produce laboratory-grown consumables scientists would need\na constant supply of live pigs, cows, chickens and other animals from which to\ntake cells. <\/li>
    3. Safety Concerns-<\/strong> <\/strong>Whether\ngenetically modified, factory-grown products are safe for us to eat is yet to\nbe studied. There ethical concerns similar to GMO crops. There can be a lack of\ntrust between consumers and companies.<\/li>
    4. Potential issues over regulation<\/strong>– The process behind food regulation takes a long\ntime. This could impact how quickly quality and safety among all products are\nstandardised. Regulation is not easy. Testing methods for safety, which\ngoverning bodies for regulation demand time and resources. This could push\ndevelopment even farther back. <\/li>
    5. Cheaper alternatives<\/strong>– <\/strong>Better,\ncheaper and more effective alternatives regarding food supply for the present\nand future are present. Some argue that moving towards more plant based diets\n(or diets with less meat, dairy and animal products) make better use of\nresources, and are cheaper, more effective, quicker to implement and healthier\nthan what lab grown meat can offer as a food source. We also already have\nseveral plant based meat substitutes in the markets.<\/li>
    6. Wrong priorities<\/strong>– <\/strong>Considering\ngreenhouse gases\/climate change, and other forms of pollution agriculture only\nproduces about 9% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Comparatively, transport,\nelectricity generation, and industry produce almost 80% of total GHGs combined.\nIf there is concern over GHG emissions and other environmental issues, it makes\nfar more sense to focus on these sectors first, rather than food and\nagriculture.<\/li>
    7. Complete Nutrition<\/strong>– Cellular Agriculture can control nutritional\ncontent like fat and protein content. But, overall nutrition is important too.\nThere are certain nutrients which we can only get in bulk from natural\nagriculture outside a lab.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      India has an opportunity to become a major player in cellular agriculture. Union government charged Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology with the goal of producing lab grown meat on a commercial scale in five years. But the sector needs proper standards and regulation with greater public investment in research and development, as well as private investment in entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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