Our legacy agricultural system makes it so hard for farmers to move back to organic farming and pasture-raised animal foods on a scale that would feed 8 billion people. It would require more farmers, more manual labour, more landrace seed varieties, more knowledge and conditions specific to the biome and microbiome the farmer lives in - all knowledge we've lost with industrial agriculture.

I think what makes cellular agriculture so exciting is that it allows some breathing room. It takes the mass pressure off, feeding the bulk of people with the kind of food they're used to (ie hamburgers or even processed food), which allows farmers the room to explore those organic options. Cellular agriculture creates the market that allows farmers to make more money creating better, diversified, organic, humane food.