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So as we start to tie on the aprons in Europe for this national holiday focused mostly on

Delicious food. We're gonna take a look today at a mainstay of the American diet meat

Americans eat a lot of meat more than 220 pounds per person per year on average

Allison Aubrey and Pierre Health correspondent bringing us the facts. Hi there, Allison. Hi, Erin. Good to be here

Good to have you so so you've been reporting on some new ideas and meat production tell us about it

Well at a time when there's a lot of focus on climate change

There's also a lot of focus on food and that's because an estimated one third of all greenhouse gas emissions

Come from food production many directly from animal agriculture their food their pasture land their gases

So now there's growing interest in a very new way to produce meat without slaughtering animals

So you're not talking here about making plants taste like meat which is to say like the beyond burger and impossible burgers

You're actually talking about animal meat

But without the animals that's right

And I talked to the founder of a company that's a leading startup in this space

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