The think tank RethinkX, which forecasts the disruptive impacts of merging technologies says that the global livestock industry is going bankrupt over the next decade as precision fermentation will make protein production dramatically cheaper, safer, more consistent, and available with less waste. Perhaps more accurate is the conclusion of the Breakthrough Institute, which after a series of interviews concluded that the industry’s demise would go more like that of coal miners and oil industry workers. Still, its interviewees appear somewhat skewed as they were listed as: “cultured meat companies, plant-based meat companies, non-profit organizations, funding agencies, governmental agencies, and the beef, soy, and pea sectors, as...

TAGS – Livestock, North America