The Ritzville Adams County Journal - Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887

I was disappointed to learn President Joe Biden’s USDA is giving out more than $223 million in grants and loans to expand the nation’s slaughter capacity.

Instead, the department should have invested these funds into cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without killing.

Propping up traditional animal agriculture is a betrayal of the progressive values Biden campaigned on. cultivated meat requires a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that raising livestock does. Since animals are removed from the process the threat of z...