A taste test of lab-grown chicken with Upside Foods' Uma Valeti

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Uma Valeti, founder of Upside Foods, to talk about creating “cultivated meat” doing a taste test (4:00), the process (6:00), why he is working on this (10:20), his “aha” moments (12:15), signing a release to eat chicken (19:55), cutting out fetal bovine serum (23:10), the scaling challenge (26:00), and the importance of transparency (29:40).

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1:02.4	Yo! Technology. What is it all about? That is the sound of the sound of sizzling chicken.
1:25.1	But not just any kind of chicken.
1:27.2	Lab-grown chicken.
1:28.9	Chicken that was fermented.
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