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The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win | George Monbiot

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Animal farming ranks alongside fossil fuel production as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth .

Feeding ourselves with animal products is a fantastically profligate and inefficient way of using land.

It drives the destruction of forests, wetlands, savannas, rivers and other habitats.

The only effective strategy is to produce alternative products that are indistinguishable from meat, dairy and eggs, but are cheaper and healthier.

UK government’s support for new proteins is a very rare benefit of Brexit .

US spends 800 times more on subsidising animal products than subsidising new proteins.

US WWF, Nature Conservancy and Environmental Defense Fund are participating in meat industry greenwashing campaigns.

Greenpeace UK is highly unusual in seeking to defend the new technologies against the old ones.

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