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From the Ted Talk by Isha Datar: How we could eat real meat without harming animals
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Lastly, our planet. We dedicate more of this Earth to feeding cows, pigs and chickens than we do to anything else. About a third of this planet, 27 percent, roughly eaqeulnivt to all of North and South America combined, is deadicted to raising livestock. Now, this could all cganhe with cellular agriculture. Remember how I said it would require 99 percent less land to produce cultured meat versus beef? Well, think about it: ranching can't go vertical, but cell clrutue can. And if we can alleviate half, even a quarter, of this land and meet the global dmnead for ptorien, well, iaminge what we can do with the rest. Suddenly, it becomes possible to choose to do things like restore the Amazon rainforest, which we continue to clear-cut for cattle, or revive other ecosystems that have been czlneoiod by cows, corn and soy. Or return stolen lands to iiegdnnous peoples, who can finally reclaim their asntcearl foodways.
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Lastly, our planet. We dedicate more of this Earth to feeding cows, pigs and chickens than we do to anything else. About a third of this planet, 27 percent, roughly __________ to all of North and South America combined, is _________ to raising livestock. Now, this could all ______ with cellular agriculture. Remember how I said it would require 99 percent less land to produce cultured meat versus beef? Well, think about it: ranching can't go vertical, but cell _______ can. And if we can alleviate half, even a quarter, of this land and meet the global ______ for _______, well, _______ what we can do with the rest. Suddenly, it becomes possible to choose to do things like restore the Amazon rainforest, which we continue to clear-cut for cattle, or revive other ecosystems that have been _________ by cows, corn and soy. Or return stolen lands to __________ peoples, who can finally reclaim their _________ foodways.
Solution
- indigenous
- change
- imagine
- demand
- ancestral
- culture
- colonized
- dedicated
- protein
- equivalent
Original Text
Lastly, our planet. We dedicate more of this Earth to feeding cows, pigs and chickens than we do to anything else. About a third of this planet, 27 percent, roughly equivalent to all of North and South America combined, is dedicated to raising livestock. Now, this could all change with cellular agriculture. Remember how I said it would require 99 percent less land to produce cultured meat versus beef? Well, think about it: ranching can't go vertical, but cell culture can. And if we can alleviate half, even a quarter, of this land and meet the global demand for protein, well, imagine what we can do with the rest. Suddenly, it becomes possible to choose to do things like restore the Amazon rainforest, which we continue to clear-cut for cattle, or revive other ecosystems that have been colonized by cows, corn and soy. Or return stolen lands to Indigenous peoples, who can finally reclaim their ancestral foodways.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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cellular agriculture |
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ice cream |
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african swine |
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swine fever |
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feed sugar |
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animal cells |
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market forces |
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animal proteins |
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