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Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.

I'm Guy Ross.

Alright, so a lot of us have made the decision to either cut back or completely cut out

meat from our lives.

For some people, it's a moral issue around harming animals.

For other people, it's health, and for me, it's because the environmental impact of meat

consumption.

But I still eat meat and I still eat seafood, and admittedly, I have occasional pangs

of guilt knowing that I'm contributing to a bigger problem.

Livestock production is a huge contributor to global carbon emissions.

Our oceans are being overfished, and the huge amount of microplastics floating deep in

the sea are making their way into our fish and consequently into our bodies.

So a good question to ask is, do we need to kill animals to create meat?

Well, until recently, the answer was, of course, don't be ridiculous, but with advances

in stem cell technology, we are coming much closer to a different answer.

And that's the starting point for a company called Wild Type Foods based in San Francisco.

Wild Type was started by two friends, Justin Colbeck and Arya Elfenbine.

Justin was a foreign service officer who spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Arya is a biologist and a trained cardiologist.

But together, they ditch their careers to pursue the idea of growing real salmon without

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