Former chartered accountant quits job to focus on creating eco-friendly meat
Tasneem Karodia is determined to make the world a better place for all who live in it by reducing the environmental impact of traditional meat production. She grows eco-friendly meat from a lab.
The production of meat has large environmental impacts such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Our World in Data, 80-billion animals are slaughtered each year for meat.
In a bid to help save the planet, Tasneem Karodia is producing eco-friendly meat from a petri dish.
Tasneem, who is conscious about living a healthy life, quit eating meat at age 16. Later in life, she quit being a chartered accountant to seek alternative methods of producing meat.
“I cut meat out of my diet for sustainability reasons. Current industrial and agricultural processes are quite inefficient and are unsustainable for the environment,” she told Beautiful News.
She co-establish her business, Mzansi Meat.
“We’ve been cultivating animal tissues to produce meat that is more sustainable and ethical,” she said.
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Beautiful News report that eco-friendly meat that Tasneem grows in the lab 'requires significantly less resources and energy with up to 99% less land use and 96% lower emissions and water usage in comparison to farming and factory operations'.
The meat is produced by extracting muscle and fat cells from the tissue of animals without having to slaughter them and once cultivated, these cells are fed nutrients so that it can grow, eventually mimicking the texture and moisture of meat, states Beautiful News.
“I'm proud to have contributed to Mzansi’s diverse table of flavours,” Karodia told the publication.
"Scientists and chefs now have a new innovative way to collaborate together to ensure we have better food for the braai,” she added.
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