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A meatless future?

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The food we'll be eating in the future may look the same, it may even taste the same, but it may well have been grown in a lab. In today's programme we're talking volcanic fungi, eggless scrambled eggs and meat that doesn't come from an animal. But will it all get past regulators and fussy eaters? Manuela Saragosa and Regan Morris investigate the California companies involved in the race to replace the meat we eat. (Photo: Non-meat burgers from Beyond Meat, Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuel Saragossa. Coming up, what will be

0:08.4

eating in the future? How about meat from an animal that hasn't been slaughtered?

0:13.4

They've been able to create almost a two-dimensional piece of meat. There's companies looking at

0:16.9

using mycelium to create skeletons to actually grow what looks like an actual steak.

0:22.5

But first, it'll need to get past regulators and the yuck factor.

0:27.7

You take a piece of meat on a dinner plate, nobody complains.

0:31.2

You take that same piece of meat and you put it in a petri dish.

0:34.3

Somebody feels awkward.

0:36.5

Lab-grown meat and limbless chickens coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.

0:43.9

If you want to know how the food industry is changing and what it'll be serving up in future,

0:49.4

head to California. It all appears to be happening there. Our reporter Reagan Morris has more.

0:54.9

Well, California does have a lot of these companies. I think because, well, the money's here.

0:59.1

There's a lot of, you know, Silicon Valley. And we have Beyond Meat an impossible burger based

1:04.4

in California. And both of those companies have been game changers. They've, you know,

1:09.7

they create these high-tech veggie

1:11.3

burgers. They've used molecular biology to transform our expectations. And, you know, this isn't

1:17.1

just vegetarians buying this. The people buying this are meat eaters. And impossible burgers

1:22.3

beyond meat, they are available everywhere in California, every restaurant, grocery store. It is hard to find a

1:28.8

restaurant or anywhere where you can't get one. You've been talking to people at this Good Food

1:34.7

Institute conference in California, which was taking place. Who is there? Why do they hold it?

1:42.0

Oh, they hold it. They're advocates for a plant-based and the future products, the lab-grown meat of the future,

1:50.3

that slaughter-free meat, we still don't know what they're going to call it.

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