To the editor,

Any politician who sincerely cares about animal welfare should support increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. There’s arguably no policy that could do more to reduce nonhuman suffering and premature death.

While the new protein has been approved for sale in the United States, it’s currently too expensive to mass produce. This can be rectified with more government money for cellular-agriculture development. All compassionate legislators, at both the state and federal level, should aggressively back the effort.

Jon Hochschartner

Granby, CT