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Challenges of assessing the environmental sustainability of cellular agriculture

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Product-level life-cycle assessments together with global-level integrative scenario assessments can guide the cellular agriculture development process towards greater environmental sustainability.

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Fig. 1: Comparison of the environmental sustainability of livestock products, peas and cellular agriculture products.

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