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"I like to think of factory farming as the coal-power
of meat production. It's intensive and it's ugly
and it's dirty and it's not great, but if we start
exploring how to diversify our portfolio of meat …
[plant-based alternatives, cultured meat, small-
scale farms] ... we have a more resilient system,
such that when something like a big avian flu
wipes out what's going on in factory farms, we
have these other systems to compensate."
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Isha Datar is the CEO of New Harvest and Clara Foods, a catalytic grant-making organization accelerating
breakthroughs in cellular agriculture. New Harvest is a non-profit building the industry and academic
discipline focused on making animal products without animals. This quote was taken from her SXSW Eco
Keynote presentation: "Food of the Future and the Post-Animal Bioeconomy," in which she discussed the
immense resource consumption of factory farming, and the need for finding viable alternatives.
