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Analysis Of Inside The Meat Lab By Jeffrey Batholet

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“Inside the Meat Lab” by Jeffrey Batholet is a detailed article on the latest technology of cultured meat. Batholet speaks on the benefits of vitro meat: environmental and efficiency. It would lessen carbon emissions and open up land for other uses. It would be far more efficient if the meat wouldn’t need to be shipped around the world. Batholet describes the lengthy process of culturing meat. The process is long and arduous as some proteins are harder to culture outside of the body. Additionally, the cost of both research and production far outweighs the possible reality of lab-grown meat. Lastly, Batholet touches on consumers’ fear and disgust regarding vitro meat. Throughout the article, Bartholet focuses on the scientists who are at the …show more content…

In paragraph 4, Bartholet uses a 2006 report, “…the livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions—an even larger contribution than the global trans-portation sector” (Bartholet 515). This form of ground is scholarly data. Scholarly data is evidence that is from a secondary source: books, reports, electronically, etc. This ground is stating how much greenhouse gasses the traditional meat industry produces. The livestock industry produces more greenhouse gasses than cars. It is widely known that the transportation industry produces a ridiculous amount of carbon dioxide; however, with this report it is surmised that it’s second to the livestock industry. This effectively pushes the point of how much stress the meat industry puts on the …show more content…

In paragraph 25, Bertholet quotes Cor van der Weele, “She notes that people often associate cultured meat with two other ideas: genetically modified foods … as a dangerous corporate scheme to dominate or control the food supply—and negative perceptions of the meat industry in general, with its factory farms, disease and mistreatment of ani-mals.” (Bartholet 515). This is a form of testimonial data as it was quoted from a primary source. This piece of evidence is very effective because Cor van der Weele is researching the emotional response people have regarding artificial meat. It is clear from her statement that people have not been receptive towards the idea of vitro meat. This is stated on why the public isn’t receptive: a possible future of companies running the show and the continued deplorable practices of traditional meat production. The public would be distrusting towards meat that they don’t understand because of this distrust, there is a high chance that even if vitro meat was able to be produced, no one would buy it. With this information, investors and governments are too inclined to fund the research and production of vitro

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