Solve for X: Andras Forgacs on sustainable, scalable meat

Problem: 8% of the world''s water supply and one third of the world's non-ice landmass is used for raising livestock for meat and leather. At least 18% of the greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere are from the livestock industry.

Solution: Fundamentally change the way meat is produced by growing the meat directly instead of raising the entire animal.

Technology: 3D printing and tissue engineering now allow bioprinting: the design and fabrication of three-dimesional tissues. The meat created in this process could be carefully designed to have the same mouth feel, texture and flavor as traditional meat.

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[Jayco Pizzaro]

wishful thinking, poverty is manufactured and control by the powers that be......it has nothing to do with shortage of food. in other words.......poverty will still be there if this technology is implemented onto general population.

[jceiras]

Oh please, no patronizing. I'm european. I had not seen that suggestion from you. And I agree with it. Subsidizing of the food industry has been historically done to make food affordable for all, but that distorts completely the market and creates unsustainable consumption patterns. If any, subsidies should be given to people in goods, not money. Governments should not subsidize corporate profit (at least not directly). I think that would be a good way to adjust consumption patterns.

[taiwanjohn88]

Joel Salatin already solved this problem a few decades ago in a much more "natural" and carbon-friendly way.

watch?v=gAHGbbjenhI

He claims that if all US beef were raised with his methods we could re-sequester all the CO2 emitted since the industrial revolution in 10 years.

[David Vladimir Wolf]

jews can eat printed pork!!!!!

[Qazic12]

If your thoughts on poverty can be summed up in a soundbyte, you don't understand its complexity.

[Paola Paniagua]

"I'm a meat eater, I love meat"

No, you love the taste of meat. Meat is what you've just denounced as harmful.

[Hazel Murphy]

This is goddamned fascinating. Hope to see this tech replace factory farming in my lifetime.

[WillofNewZealand]

Epic, which way shall they jump, value and buy me out, don't value licences and licence values end all over,don't do anything and licences hold value and i remain the only person that can make commercial use of One print burger ,so you can make burgers in a single print for free but no money can be made,ending capitilizium for this line of products and products licenced this way.

I'd like to think i'd be paid out so money can continue to be made but its up to those with money. End money or not?

[GetSavedNowAskMeHow]

Yes, there is some sort of grab happening to further monopolize food, it's amazing. infowars.com/food-monopolists-­are-taking-over-the-world-food­-supply/

[GetSavedNowAskMeHow]

lol that was epic

[GetSavedNowAskMeHow]

Excellent Sharath, thank you for seeing this video for what it really is.

[GetSavedNowAskMeHow]

Again, we are speaking of a highly commercial, monoculture approach to producing a low quality food product for the explicit purpose of making money, not feeding people healthy and being responsible with nature. Pastured poultry, pastured cows, raised as close to their natural habitat is much better and these issues are eliminated. what you describe is a product of greed, plain and simple. youtube.com/watch?v=RHkIUcOB2v­A / youtube.com/watch?v=nOpAjKE0cL­k