The rearing of farm animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by treating animals not as sentient creatures, but as production units. Raised by the thousands at a single location, animals are confined in such tight quarters that they can barely move, let alone behave normally.| Animal Welfare Institute
Learn why UC Davis scientists say lab-grown or cultivated meat is likely worse for the climate than beef.| UC Davis
The majority of farm animals in the world are factory-farmed.| Our World in Data
Learn about the science of cultivated meat and the challenges that must be addressed for commercial production.| The Good Food Institute