Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.

This is Sam Harris.

Okay, well today I'm talking about some fundamental questions of human existence, but they are

rarely thought of as such.

There's not the mystery of being or the nature of consciousness or what happens after

death.

You know, this is a conversation about a far more basic question than those.

It's the question of what we eat and how that affects the prospects of our survival

here.

It does it in two ways.

How we produce food, in particular how we produce protein, affects climate change and

pandemic risk very directly.

And on both counts, the status quo really is unacceptable.

So today I get into that topic with Bruce Friedrich and Liz Spect, both of whom work

at the Good Food Institute.

GFI is an international nonprofit that is reimagining the process of protein production.

Bruce oversees GFI's global strategy.

He is also a Ted fellow and a wide-compinator alum.

He has published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Wired and

in many other places.

He has a TED talk that some of you may have seen.

And he's a graduate of Georgetown Law, Johns Hopkins and the London School of Economics.

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