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Norwegian start-up Nofence has transformed the way livestock farmers work by using technology which allows animals to graze without the need for traditional fencing.

Norway is home to the world’s first virtual fencing, produced using GPS and cellular communication to help farmers graze on pasture without the need for traditional penning or electrical fencing.

The technology allows farmers to change the boundaries of grazing zones throughout the day and avoid over-grazing.

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Earlier today, I ate a scoop of chocolate ice cream – creamy and pleasantly fatty feeling in my mouth. This would hardly seem newsworthy, except for the high-tech ingredient that made my frozen treat go down so smoothly: dairy proteins produced in a lab, no cows needed.

The realm of plant-based meat substitutes has gotten a lot of buzz lately. Think the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat – companies that use biochemistry to mimic the taste and texture of meat using plant-based ingredients. There’s another frontier along these lines – start-ups that use microbes to create egg, dairy and other animal proteins without the animals.

Their pitch: Sustainability. Livestock agriculture uses lots of water and land resources, and produces significant amounts of greenhouse gases.

“If you can produce just the proteins that you want without keeping a living animal alive, that’s going to be a lot more efficient, so it’s better for the environment,” says Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute, which promotes plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal protein. And he says as the technology scales up, it should be a lot cheaper to produce proteins this way, too.

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Startup says it has pioneered milk proteins ‘chemically identical’ to those in cow-produced milk, for products with the same taste and texture, but no cholesterol or lactose

Israeli startup Remilk hopes to be the first company in the world to bring real dairy milk products to market without needing a single cow in the process.

“Relying on animals to make our food is no longer sustainable,” said Aviv Wolff, who co-founded the startup up last year. “The implications of animal farming are devastating for our planet.”

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We are the world’s largest producer of milk, oilseeds, pulses, cotton, mangoes, papayas and bananas.  Globally, India is the second-largest producer of rice, sugar, tea, vegetables and fish also. This makes food processing   a priority sector  for the policy makers. .The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to introduce the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme in the  10 key sectors. This scheme is for Enhancing India’s Manufacturing Capabilities and Enhancing Exports – Atmanirbhar Bharat. Food processing as one of the most important sector has received an allocation of Rs 10900 Crores under this scheme. Priority food products mentioned under this sector are as follows :

1. Ready to Eat / Ready to Cook (RTE/ RTC)
2. Marine Products
3. Fruits & Vegetables
4. Honey
5. Desi Ghee
6. Mozzarella Cheese
7. Organic eggs and poultry meat

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If you believe all the headlines, in a few short years or even less time, the way meat is grown will radically change. Brewing like tanks full of dividing  cells will replace farms and factory farms raising livestock, thus no more animals will be slaughtered, all environmental issues- including climate change and water scarcity- will be resolved, world hunger will no longer exist, and deforestation will no longer be necessary. Plus best of all there will be meat a plenty that even die-hard vegans can consume with a clear conscience.

Okay, maybe this representation is a little bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. A lot of hyped up marketing spin is involved and has been expended to “position” lab meat, including re-branding it as “clean meat” (in vitro meat, cell meat, and cultured meat all didn’t do as well in marketing surveys). That hype involves creating a market for a product line that might otherwise only have a very limited audience and appeal. To build a market, consumers have to be dissuaded from consuming real meat. So to build an audience a whole litany of out of context statistics are repeated about water footprints, land use, feed efficiency, deforestation, greenhouse gases, health concerns, and animal welfare.

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The Covid 19 pandemic has led to the dramatic collapse of livestock supply chains. In the US, meat processing facilities have turned into Corona hotspots. Their closure is not just interrupting the food supply, but also means euthanizing hundreds of thousands of animals and finding a way of disposing of their dead bodies — an animal welfare and logistical night mare.Throughout the world, disruption of dairy supply chains has forced farmers to pour millions of gallons of milk down the drains.

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More than ten thousand tribal and Dalit small holder poultry farmers who had successfully built cooperative enterprise and escaped poverty, were forced to cull chickens due to rumors linking spread of coronavirus to chicken consumption…

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