From Brian Glassup, Llanfairfechan, Conwy, UK
Graham Lawton’s article on making dairy products using microbes describes technology that can bring significant and welcome benefits: greatly reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, improving animal welfare, helping to better human health and nutrition, and so on (14 August, p 46).
While he says lobbying against these products hasn’t yet begun, it is only a matter of time before vested interests push back. Just as renewable energy initiatives are resisted by fossil fuel businesses and nations whose wealth derives from fossil fuels, I expect livestock businesses and nations whose economy is based on livestock farming to follow the same path.
