Getting Beyond Meat

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In recent years, companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have introduced plant-based hamburgers that look and feel like the real thing and plant-based chicken nuggets that pass the kid test. Now companies are looking to grow meat from real animals in labs, and the FDA has approved lab-grown meat as safe for human consumption. Although Americans consume on average 250 pounds of meat per person a year and another 20 pounds of fish or shellfish, more Americans are identifying as vegetarian or vegan. So the race is on to find alternative meats that might capture their palates and pocketbooks. We’ll talk about where alternative meats are headed and whether they’re good for us and the planet. Guests: Laura Reiley, Business of Food reporter, Washington Post David Julian McClements, Distinguished professor, Food Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; author, "Future Foods: How Modern Science is Transforming the Way We Eat" Amy Chen, COO, Upside Foods, manufacturer of cultivated meats based in Emeryville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.5	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, a California company's chicken was cleared by the FDA last month as safe to eat. The reason that's notable, their chicken is
1:24.0	grown in a lab. And it's the first time the Food and Drug Administration has greenlit
1:28.2	a so-called cultivated meat product.
1:30.9	But whether people will flock to this form of meat is unclear, especially as demand for
1:35.6	meat-like products made from plants, like Impossible or Beyond Burgers, is showing signs of cooling.
1:41.5	We check in on the latest efforts to get Americans to satisfy their meat
1:44.7	cravings with alternatives after this news.
1:58.3	I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum.
2:04.6	Alternatives to meat and meat production have come a long way. Two decades ago, alt meats were impossible to confuse with animal meats, tofu, satan. They didn't even try to fool consumers.
2:11.6	Then came corn with a queue and we inched closer to a viable plant-based alternative. In recent years, companies like
2:19.3	Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have introduced plant-based burgers and chicken nuggets that
2:24.8	look and feel like the real thing as more consumers seek out something meaty without killing
2:31.4	animals and with a smaller environmental footprint.
2:35.8	But Altmeat fever has cooled, according to one of our guests, even as it continues to make
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