A Food Revolution in Eight (More) Ideas

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino meets pioneering thinkers to hear about future food ideas ranging from edible protein sourced from chicken feathers to crops inoculated with fungi capable of tolerating a hotter climate.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.1	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,
0:13.5	moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.5	We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.
0:28.6	So whether you want an insightful take on music right now
0:31.3	or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,
0:36.1	check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:39.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Over the years on the food program, I've encountered lots of
0:46.6	unusual foods, from wriggly, weevil larvae to porcupine liver. But I don't think I've felt the need to ask this question. What the chicken
0:57.8	feathers taste like? I ask because it came up recently at a serious event on the future of food.
1:08.0	Hi everybody and welcome to the 2025 British Library food season on eating the future,
1:15.4	the future of food.
1:16.6	Polly Russell, founder and curator of the British Library's food season.
1:21.0	And in a session on radical ideas for the future of food, a couple of entrepreneurs with
1:27.3	design backgrounds took
1:29.2	to the stage and started talking about eating feathers.
1:33.4	I just saw this problem in the global scale that we consuming chicken but we throwing
1:40.3	away feathers.
1:41.3	This is Sorowat, Kitty Bantorn, originally from Thailand, a former student at London's
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