To the editor,

Most people aren’t aware animal agrculture is one of the leading causes of climate change. To help counteract this, forward-thinking politicians should support state and federal funding of cultivated-meat research. For readers who are unfamiliar, the new protein is grown from livestock cells, without killing. Scientists believe cultivated meat will eventually require a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that slaughtered options do.

The basic science of making cultivated meat is already known. However, important technological hurdles remain, which are preventing the new protein from being mass produced at a competitive price. These can be overcome with significant public investment in further study. For the sake of the environment, let’s build facilities like the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture at schools across the country.

Jon Hochschartner 

41 Salmon Brook Street

Granby, CT 06035

(703) 901-1011