Eating Cultivated Meat: Dr. Uma Valeti’s Moonshot To Engineer The Future Of Food & End Factory Farming

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Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Dr. Uma Valeti is the founder and CEO of UPSIDE Foods, pioneering the cultivated meat revolution. This conversation explores the cutting-edge world of growing real meat from animal cells without industrial farming. We discuss Uma’s journey from cardiologist to food tech innovator, the science behind cultivated meat, and its potential to address global food security and environmental challenges. Along the way, I stepped out of my 17-year vegan comfort zone to taste-test UPSIDE’s cultivated chicken products. Uma is a visionary. And this conversation is mind-expanding. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: AG1: Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs 👉 drinkAG1.com/richroll Waking Up: Unlock a FREE month, plus $30 OFF 👉 wakingup.com/RICHROLL On: Enter RichRoll10 at the checkout to get 10% OFF your first order 👉 on.com/richroll Birch: Get 25% off ALL mattresses and 2 free eco-rest pillows 👉 BirchLiving.com/richroll Squarespace: Use offer code RichRoll to save 10% off 👉 Squarespace.com/RichRoll Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors 👉 richroll.com/sponsors Find out more about Voicing Change Media at voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange

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0:00.0	It's been quite a long time since I've tasted chicken.
0:05.0	How long?
0:05.8	17 years.
0:06.6	Wow.
0:07.6	Well, should we do a testing?
0:08.7	We should.
0:09.7	Absolutely.
0:10.7	Let's do it. This is a big moment, Uma.
0:18.8	What if I told you that you could create meat? I'm talking beef, pork, poultry, seafood,
0:22.0	but without killing a single animal.
0:25.0	We decided that we'll make a meatball from cow cells.
0:28.0	I will never forget the moment I put that in my mouth and bit into it
0:31.0	and every single neuron in my brain and taste buds and aromas and
0:37.0	every all the five senses they're lit up saying that this is meat. The demand for
0:42.4	meat has continued to grow and grow despite all the challenges.
0:48.4	Let's figure out a way to have what we love, but let it not come with this incredible downside of wreaking havoc on the planet.
0:57.0	This is the most risky path but this is the most worthwhile path.
1:02.0	Hey everyone welcome to the but this is the most worthwhile path.
1:06.5	Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast. The future of food and food innovation,
1:09.8	these are recurring themes of this podcast which include keeping tabs on the rapidly
1:15.5	advancing world of cultivated meat or cultured meat which for those
1:20.9	unfamiliar is genuine animal meat, it's beef, it's poultry, it's pork, it's
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