The current large-scale methods of animal agriculture are so brutal and inefficient that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has offered a one million dollar reward to the first scientist that can produce in vitro meat, a term that describes meat that is grown externally from cells taken from a live animal.1 PETA [...]
In the United States, the food production industry pervades everything we do. Meetings with friends are often accompanied by lunch or coffee, family dinners are treasured as time to bond with family, and mealtimes are regarded as sacred. So much of what we do revolves around food that imagining what would happen if that food [...]