Finless Foods’ Mike Selden: “We brew fish meat”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mike Selden, founder of Finless Foods, to talk about growing fish flesh without the fish (3:15) how it works (4:30), turning mush into fillets (7:00), why he started the company (8:50), the scourge of sea lice (10:40), blind tuna (12:05), how to avoid the public relations mistakes made by the GMO industry (13:35), leaving a medical career for a startup (16:10), why banana candy tastes terrible (17:10), being an environmental activist (18:20), the nascent ‘clean meat’ industry (19:40), the synthetic biology revolution (22:00), the ingredients (23:50), vegetable “scaffolding’ (25:45), taking on Big Fish (26:40) why Europe will be a challenge (28:00), being transparent in marketing (30:00), fish brewery tours (31:45), why cost is key (33:10), the beginning of the end of industrial livestock (36:05), and banishing vegetarianism (38:00).

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from deep inside
0:04.6	the West Coast Future Machine. Before we get to today's show, I wanted to thank you. It's been
0:09.9	great to get back to it after the little Christmas sabbatical, and that's partly because of the
0:14.4	support from you, dear listeners. We've got a lot of great reviews rolling in like this one
0:20.0	from August Will Be Great,
0:22.0	who says, well-produced with inspirational guests, the relaxed interview style,
0:26.7	makes them an easy listen with loads of little gems of advice.
0:30.3	Good job, Danny.
0:31.7	Well, thank you, August.
0:33.6	And random fact, August is my son's middle name.
0:37.4	So please keep them coming in.
0:39.2	In fact, press pause, go over,
0:41.5	click on the little star emblem, maybe jot down a few words.
0:44.3	I'll wait.
0:46.1	Done it?
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0:48.3	Now, on to today's show.
0:51.2	Yo, technology.
0:53.9	What is it all about?
0:55.7	What they really want is they want food that is safe for themselves and their children.
1:00.1	They want food that is nutritious and can really help people grow.
1:03.7	And they want food that doesn't have heavy environmental impact.
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