The First Synthetic Hamburger

One study analyzed the impact that laboratory meat could have on the planet and it turns out that it would not be so different from the one that currently has beef cattle.

In 2013 the first synthetic hamburger was presented, created from the stem cells of a cow, the company responsible received 9 million dollars to be able to have this meat on a global scale and at affordable prices in spite of affirming that its meat is more sustainable has not offered any data on the environmental impact of this.

The authors of that study found that the studies that calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of livestock, group gases as if they were all equivalent, but not all gases work in the same way, cows produce a lot of methane and methane it is very bad for global warming if worse even than CO; however, methane only remains a dozen years in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide on the other side does not disappear in more than a century.

And in the sum of risks, until now no one sees taking into account the carbon dioxide emissions that the future factories of synthetic meat will generate when burning fuel to work, if they are destined to replace the conventional meat, that to the Long could be worse for the planet, if we do not find a substitute to conventional energy sources with which to generate clean energy.