What Is the Future of Meat?

In 2020, Kearney, a leading management consulting firm, published a cautionary report suggesting that the costs of feeding livestock, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, and other issues would significantly disrupt the conventional meat market. In the publication, Kearney analysts argued that new solutions to grow meat production and make related processes more efficient were all but exhausted. As a result, agribusiness needed to prepare for more companies (and consumers) shifting away fro…