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Today I'm going to give you a podcast that I really just stumbled into. I was on a phone call

with a man named Uma Valetti, a cardiologist who is now running a company called Memphis Meats.

And he is trying to bring to market what he calls cultured meat. This is meat that is synthesized

from cells of cows or pigs or any other common food animal, but is grown by processes that do not

entail whole animals to be born and to live and die under the terrible conditions of factory farming

or any other conditions. This is meat grown outside the usual biological process of being attached

to a full animal. So it entails none of the animal suffering or as you'll hear the other environmental

and health-related concerns of factory farming. So in any case, I was on the phone with Uma and the

moment we got into the conversation, I realized this is something that you guys should know more about.

And so I just converted a phone call into a podcast and that's how I'm bringing you now,

Uma Valetti. Cardiologist turned entrepreneur and food producer. Enjoy.

Well, I'm here with Uma Valetti, the CEO and co-founder of Memphis Meats. And as many of you know,

I've been interested in vegetarianism and veganism and the ethics of factory farming and I stumbled

into an interest in the emerging possibility of synthesized meat. And Uma is now running what appears

to be the most prominent effort in this area. So Uma, thanks for coming on the podcast.

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