There will come a day, and it isn’t far away, when no one cares about land for cattle: because we now face one of our planet’s biggest ever technological revolutions in food and agriculture, so big, that it will make our debates, the incursions, the killings, the arguing about antibiotics in livestock, the lobbying and the entire agricultural conversation of the early 20th Century look truly quaint and funny.
At some point during this Covid pandemic, in late 2020, Singapore approved for sale its first lab-grown chicken meat, also known as cultured meat, from just one manufacturer among many now developing cell-based food production.