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The Rich Zeoli Show

Are You Excited to Try “Cell-Cultivated” Chicken? Neither Is Anyone Else!

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Chef Andrew Gruel— founder, CEO, and executive chef of Slapfish, a seafood restaurant franchise based out of Huntington Beach, California—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the U.S. Agriculture Department’s recent decision to approve lab-grown proteins for human consumption. Would you be interested in eating “cell-cultivated” chicken? You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicken-grown-from-cells-headed-to-u-s-dinner-tables-a964fe7b?mod=business_featst_pos3

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the C. O. Lee Show podcast from talk radio 1210 W. P. H. D. and the Odyssey app.

0:08.0

All right, I'm very excited for this interview.

0:11.1

It's a guy I've been following on Twitter for quite some time and taking lots of

0:14.8

recipe suggestions. Welcome back to the show. Glad you're here. Follow me on Twitter at rich

0:19.1

C. O. Lee 855 839 1210. Chef Andrew Grohl, Chef, how are you today?

0:25.5

I'm doing great. Thank you so much.

0:27.6

Now listen, thank you. I follow you on Twitter. I have been for a long time.

0:31.8

Some of your suggestions like letting meat rest, for example, after it comes off the grill,

0:37.1

have been invaluable to me as an amateur chef. So thank you.

0:42.3

Well, thank you for reading. But I don't want to have anything and I'm going to use air quotes here

0:47.7

when I say meat. That's grown in a lab because it sounds disgusting to me.

0:52.8

Well, it is disgusting.

0:58.3

Let's talk about that. And by the way, not only is Chef Andrew Grohl a great tweeter, he is a chef

1:03.9

in television personality has appeared as a judge on food networks, shopped junior with Meghan

1:08.7

Markle. And he's the founder CEO and executive chef of Slapfish, a seafood restaurant franchise

1:14.4

based out of Huntington Beach, California. I mean, we can't call it meat. So what should we refer

1:19.2

to it as you think, Chef? I think we can just call it stuff at this point, you know,

1:26.0

poison. There's a lot of different names I could call it, some of which I probably can't say on

1:30.4

the air right now. But, you know, we got to understand what's happening right now to our food

1:35.2

system to then drill down into this new approval for lab grown meats, specifically chicken.

1:40.8

This has been happening. They've been pushing for this approval for years, probably over almost

1:45.4

a decade. Most of the funding of all of this lab grown culture or sorry, cell kind of cultured

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