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Animal-free dairy: Could this be the future of milk?

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The Environmental Impacts of Precision Fermentation Dairy

To make an impact, precision fermentation dairy needs to become widely available and affordable. Unless these technologies are based entirely on renewable energy sources, it will essentially undermine one of the biggest environmental promises that they have claimed. Another big environmental challenge is around land juice change. I always say that we can't take for granted that land use conversion to conservation is a given. We need to really be thinking now what policy mechanisms do we need to either strengthen or create to protect that that conversion? Andanother concern is around the whole supply chain of ingredients. A lot of the cultivated meat or precision dairy processes will require certain amounts of agriculturally grown input such as sugars. And so we need to be looking

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