Speakers from all over Europe will share their ideas at the 21st Humboldt Symposium at Humboldt University in Berlin on 11 May, 2022. Food awareness organisation ProVeg International will discuss the potential of cultured meat to create a sustainable food system.
The upcoming “Future of Food” symposium will examine some of the major challenges affecting the food supply chain, including food waste, food insecurity and the effectiveness of fair trade in agriculture.
Lecturers will include:
– Renate Kunast, MP, Alliance 90/The Greens
– Raphael Fellmer, co-founder of SIRPLUS
– Ingo Senftleben, MdL, CDU Brandenburg
– Tadzio Muller, political scientist
Mathilde Alexandre, CellAg project manager at ProVeg, comments on cultured meat:
“Cellular agriculture presents many promising opportunities without creating the environmental destruction that traditional meat causes through its use of land and water use.”
“The technology also offers the ability to produce meat without the need to breed, raise, or slaughter animals. We are therefore looking forward to presenting those opportunities at the Humboldt Symposium and to help increase understanding and acceptance of this new industry.”
“Cellular agriculture has moved more quickly from the academic environment to the private sector than most other technologies in the biotech and biomedical fields, and this is why ProVeg recommends governments fund public research in this nascent field,” Alexandre said.
‘Diet change, not climate change’ is ProVeg’s campaign slogan for food system change. The organisation is working to reduce meat consumption by 50% by the year 2040.