Cell Ag 1/2

Cellular Agriculture in a Meatcell

Lab-Grown Meat, Cell Culture, Gene Editing, and Biology!

Okezue Bell
21 min readDec 9, 2020

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I love food, emerging tech, and problems. Good thing (and really bad thing) that food is a big problem, and has its own emerging sector of the -tech suffix, called foodtech. There’s all sorts of cool stuff available, like bioprinting, aquaculture, hydroponics, and more!

But there’s this extraordinary topic that we’re going to need sometime soon. If you haven’t read my previous article on food computers and why I’m building them, then you should definitely read it:

Anyway, the point is that we’re in two food crises: 25% of all greenhouse gas is food.

  • Land 1.5 times the size of the European Union could have been saved if we only produced meat for nutritional requisites
  • The cow is only a 3% efficient technology when it comes to food
  • Milk has made over 18 refrigerators full of water polluted (PER GLASS)
  • Environmental Destruction
  • 1/4 of the world’s biggest, most immediate problem
  • Shelf life is pretty bad
  • Everyone’s not going to…

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Okezue Bell
Okezue Bell

Written by Okezue Bell

Social technologist with a passion for journalism and community outreach.

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