Burgers

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to discover why Americans love burgers so much, eating 50 million of them a year. Joined by Monica, he tries to figure out why in America it’s always beef for dinner and how that fact has drastically altered the biology of the humble cow. David talks to Ben Wurgaft, author of “Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food” about the triumphs and problems of creating artificial meat. David also talks to Isha Datar, executive director of New Harvest, about the realities of feeding 8 billion people on earth each year using meat grown in giant vats - and asks whether it’s all just hype. We also discover what Dax Shepard and Kim Kardashian have in common - and yes, it’s related to meat.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	Now it's always fun finding out about the national dish of any country you're in.
0:12.8	In New Zealand it's fish and chips,
0:14.8	or the humble meat pie found in the pie warmer
0:17.6	at any good corner store.
0:19.4	In Italy it's bolognese, and Canada has poutine.
0:23.6	As for America, well, from what I can tell,
0:26.3	I'm not sure it has a specific food.
0:29.4	But if you did, I'm pretty confident
0:32.0	it would be the burger.
0:33.4	The burger represents everything about America.
0:36.6	It's big, it's satisfying, and it's quick,
0:39.9	available almost everywhere all the time.
0:42.8	I mean you can be in some fancy restaurant and chances are you'll be able to order a burger as easily as you can at McDonald's.
0:50.3	You go on a road trip and every diner along the way has a burger.
0:54.4	Americans eat about 50 million burgers every year
0:58.7	because America loves beef.
1:01.2	Beef, it's what's for dinner.
1:05.0	But why is it beef for dinner?
1:07.0	The United States eats more beef than any other country in the world.
1:11.0	12 million metric tons a year. That's wiles, and I need to find out why.
1:16.6	So grab some buns and figure out what animal or animal substitute you're going to shove in the
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