Allison Berke- The Good Food Institute- From Factory-Farmed Animal Products to Clean Meat Alternatives

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Allison Berke is an academic advisor at The Good Food Institute, a non-profit organization working on the transition from factory-farmed animal products to plant-based and clean meat alternatives. By taking a small number of cells from an animal and applying biomedical methods in the lab, the science and tech team at The Good Food Institute is growing full meat products that are molecularly identical to animal meat, but in a way that is better for the environment and doesn't require the slaughter of animals.
"Clean meat and plant-based meat are going to be better for the environment…better in terms of animal welfare, and also better in terms of global poverty and human health in that we can grow more calories on the same amount of land more efficiently and with fewer environmental inputs," says Berke.
Tune in to hear the details, such as how to obtain the taste and texture of different types of meat, the challenges and constraints in terms of cost-effectiveness, and the growing interest in the plant-based and clean meat field–even by major factory-farm-based corporations such as Tyson.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.6	Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.
0:13.3	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.8	We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.2	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech podcast.
0:29.8	My guest is Allison Burke of the Good Food Institute, an academic advisor.
0:34.3	Allison, how you doing?
0:35.5	Good.
0:36.0	Thanks so much for coming.
0:37.3	I really appreciate it. Sure. So let's just dive in and just, I mean, tell me about the Good Food Institute. What kind of works going on there? And in particular, you know, what are you working on? Yeah, so the Good Food Institute is a nonprofit, and we serve as a think tank for the plant-based and clean meat and clean egg and
0:55.4	dairy fields. So we have a team of scientists and entrepreneurs and lawyers and policy experts
1:01.0	and we're focused on using food innovation and markets to transform our current system of
1:05.9	animal agriculture to transition it from factory farm to animal products to plant-based and
1:09.8	clean meat alternatives.
1:16.4	So I'm on the science and technology team, and I work with researchers, students, professors,
1:21.4	looking at how they can take their research and apply it to plant-based and clean meat or how research that they're already doing in stem cells or in tissue culture,
1:27.4	bioreactor development is directly applicable to
1:30.1	the clean meat field.
1:31.6	Yeah, I think I understand, you know, plant-based food is you eat plants, but what is it,
1:35.8	what does clean meat mean?
1:37.5	Does that mean just, you know, grow, well, not growing animals, but husbanding animals that
1:43.8	don't, you know, have antibiotics injected
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