Is Anyone Right About the Future of Cultivated Meat? Does It Matter?

“We’re at ‘code red for humanity’ on climate change. The U.N. says that on our current trajectory, we’ll need to produce 70 to 100 percent more meat by 2050, the vast majority of that in developing countries,” Friedrich says.

“If cultivated meat were not promising, we’d just focus more or entirely on plant-based meat and fermentation,” Friedrich says.