To the editor,

As the impacts of climate change become more widely felt and acknowledged, our political leaders should support increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. The new protein is expected to require a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that traditional meat does.

Many people aren’t aware that animal agriculture is one of the most significant causes of global warming. While cultivated meat has earned regulatory approval in the United States, it’s currently too expensive to mass produce. This can be rectified with the help of environmentally-conscious politicians backing more government money for cellular-agriculture development.

Jon Hochschartner

41 Salmon Brook Street

Granby, CT 06035

(703) 901-1011