Cultivated meat technology offers the potential to dramatically reduce animal suffering in food production by producing meat from cell cultures without slaughtering animals, representing a transformative welfare advance.
Cultivated meat represents one of the most promising technological pathways to dramatically reducing animal suffering in food production. By decoupling meat from the slaughter of billions of animals annually, it could transform the welfare calculus of meat consumption at civilizational scale. The welfare considerations within cultivated meat production — including the welfare of cell donor animals and any welfare implications of production processes — are orders of magnitude smaller than the welfare harms it displaces. Supporting the development and adoption of cultivated meat is therefore a high-leverage animal welfare intervention.