The climate impact and land use of cultivated meat: Evaluating agricultural feedstock production.

ABSTRACT: As global demand for meat continues to rise, alternative and sustainable methods of production are being explored. Cultivated meat (CM) is one such alternative that holds potential for sustainable production with less environmental impact. This study develops an approach to evaluate CM production based on agricultural feedstock. The specific objectives are to determine the minimum land area required to produce a certain amount of cell medium-feedstock for CM production-on agricultural land and to identify potential future land use scenarios assuming that the macro components of the cell medium are solely produced from common agricultural crops in southern Germany. A linear programming model was developed to analyze four different scenarios of CM production, considering factors such as crop

SUBMITTER: Kossmann H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753643 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature