Government funding for open-access research and development in alternative proteins is a crucial policy change needed for global health and food security.

“governments should be funding, open access, research and development into plant-based and cultivated meat. And they should be incentivizing private sector activity, both research and development, as well as infrastructure and manufacturing build-out.”

Food prices should reflect the actual cost of production, while social equity should ensure that people can afford to pay those prices.

“I think that food should cost what it actually costs to produce, >> but I also think that the equity in society should permit for people to be able to afford that food.”