Science
Biology, agronomy, food science, and the research record.
- Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
The 2012 statement by an international group of neuroscientists affirming that mammals, birds, and many other animals including octopuses possess the neural substrates of consciousness.
#consciousness#sentience#animal-cognition#neuroscience - Cellular agriculture
Growing animal proteins and tissues without animals — cultivated meat, precision fermentation, and recombinant proteins, from Mark Post's 2013 burger to today's regulatory approvals and unresolved scale-up economics.
#cell-ag#cultivated-meat#precision-fermentation#biotechnology - How to read a nutrition study
A field guide to reading diet research without being misled — study designs, confounding, FFQ noise, absolute versus relative risk, meta-analysis pitfalls, and conflict-of-interest checks.
#evidence#epidemiology#methods#rct - Life-cycle assessment of food
How life-cycle assessment (LCA) quantifies the environmental impact of foods — what it measures, how boundary and allocation choices shape results, and where the method's blind spots lie.
#lca#methodology#food-systems#emissions - Precision fermentation
Engineered microbes producing animal proteins — whey, casein, ovalbumin, collagen, heme — via the same recombinant-DNA platform that has made insulin and chymosin for forty years, now extended to dairy and egg.
#precision-fermentation#fermentation#biotechnology#recombinant-protein - Science
The empirical ground under veganism — how nutrition, agronomy, animal cognition, food systems modelling, and cellular agriculture are actually measured, and how to read the evidence without overreaching it.
#research#nutrition-science#cell-ag#fermentation