November 20, 2023
Dear editor;
Politicians love to pay lip service to animal welfare, and yet so few of them hold the position that would do most to relieve the suffering of our fellow creatures. That would be supporting increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For readers who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter.
Though the protein is currently sold in a handful of restaurants, it’s prohibitively expensive to produce on a mass scale. More government support for cellular-agriculture development will help rectify this. Compassionate politicians, especially those working at the national level, should back efforts to make a transition away from animal husbandry.
Jon Hochschartner, Granby, Conn.