Letter To The Editor: On “Massive Public Investment In Cultivated-Meat Research”
To the editor, There are few policy proposals that have the potential to do more good than a massive public investment in cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. My hope is this technology will help sweep fish trawlers and slaughterhouses into the dustbin of history. However, if cultivated meat only replaces a small percentage of the existing meat market, it would save billions of animals from suffering and premature death every year.While the technology currently exists to make cultivated meat, it’s too expensive to mass produce. I have no doubt this can be rectified with further research. We should build facilities like the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture at schools across the country. Compassionate political leaders should direct government resources toward this effort. As dark as our politics feels right now, with corruption and hatred seemingly everywhere, the possibility of building a better world remains.Jon Hochschartner Granby, CT
Black News 
To the editor,
There are few policy proposals that have the potential to do more good than a massive public investment in cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. My hope is this technology will help sweep fish trawlers and slaughterhouses into the dustbin of history. However, if cultivated meat only replaces a small percentage of the existing meat market, it would save billions of animals from suffering and premature death every year.
While the technology currently exists to make cultivated meat, it’s too expensive to mass produce. I have no doubt this can be rectified with further research. We should build facilities like the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture at schools across the country. Compassionate political leaders should direct government resources toward this effort. As dark as our politics feels right now, with corruption and hatred seemingly everywhere, the possibility of building a better world remains.
Jon Hochschartner
Granby, CT
