Garrett Broad, assistant professor of communication and media studies and director of the Public Media Masters of Art Program, is researching food system injustices and plant-based alternatives to meat in the United States and abroad. Broad said “food system” means food production and consumption from field to fork.
His research revolves around how new food technology can be used together with social justice, “food tech justice,” as he calls it, to create a more sustainable and equitable future in the world of food.
Broad has been looking into “cellular agriculture,” where by using tissue engineering, scientists take a small bit of tissue from an animal and actually grow a piece of meat without slaughtering the animal.
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