I really enjoyed reading this. Sharing information is so important when it comes to influencing those levers you mention.
This got me thinking about how this applies to the Alternative Protein Industry, and how it solves for the same problems as the Effective Animal Advocacy movement (even though many in the alt protein space may not know much about EA, so probably not EA-aligned, but can still do a impactful work for the EAA space).
I have wondered before, what good would it do if we flipped all of the past governmental and industry investments in farmed ag research on ‘how to breed for productive animals’ to ‘here’s a shortcut to selecting the best donor animal cells for cellular agriculture, and the best gene variants for fermentation-derived alt proteins’. Of course, there’s foundational considerations like ‘well those variants may not be optimal for proteins grown outside of the animal’ etc., but I think the industry isn’t tapping in to that information that’s already there. I’ve been toying with the idea of drafting a piece on this for open source dissemination (but between procrastination and not really knowing where to start, its still just an idea bouncing around my head). Maybe its the animal geneticist in me that thinks the overlap would be good, whereas someone less immersed in it might think its not so useful?
I really enjoyed reading this. Sharing information is so important when it comes to influencing those levers you mention.
This got me thinking about how this applies to the Alternative Protein Industry, and how it solves for the same problems as the Effective Animal Advocacy movement (even though many in the alt protein space may not know much about EA, so probably not EA-aligned, but can still do a impactful work for the EAA space).
I have wondered before, what good would it do if we flipped all of the past governmental and industry investments in farmed ag research on ‘how to breed for productive animals’ to ‘here’s a shortcut to selecting the best donor animal cells for cellular agriculture, and the best gene variants for fermentation-derived alt proteins’. Of course, there’s foundational considerations like ‘well those variants may not be optimal for proteins grown outside of the animal’ etc., but I think the industry isn’t tapping in to that information that’s already there. I’ve been toying with the idea of drafting a piece on this for open source dissemination (but between procrastination and not really knowing where to start, its still just an idea bouncing around my head). Maybe its the animal geneticist in me that thinks the overlap would be good, whereas someone less immersed in it might think its not so useful?
Thoughts welcome!