How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth

Unsung Science

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Society & Culture, Earth Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

People talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals like cows generates more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry. So Pat Brown left his job as a Stanford biochemistry professor to dedicate his life to fixing the problem. He vowed to create perfect meat replicas using only plant ingredients. His Impossible Burger is already a megahit—but can he be serious about replacing all beef, pork, chicken, and fish by 2035?

Guest: Pat Brown, CEO and founder, Impossible Foods

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0:00.0	The goal of impossible foods ink is to replace beef, pork, chicken, fish, and steak with foods
0:11.3	that look, cook, taste, and smell just as good or better, but don't involve raising or
0:16.9	slaughtering any animals.
0:19.4	Pat Brown founded the company not to become the next billionaire, but because livestock
0:24.6	are a disaster for the climate.
0:27.1	We are not going to stay ourselves from catastrophic climate change without replacing the animals
0:31.4	in the food system.
0:32.4	You just, you can't get there from there.
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1:24.5	Season one, episode 15, how impossible meats might save the earth.
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