Jim Mellon: "Cultured meat will be bigger than electric vehicles"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Jim Mellon, the billionaire investor and co-founder of Agronomics, to talk about the lab-grown meat revolution (2:40), why he thinks he’s not too early (7:40), the dairy industry example (9:30), replacing traditional industries (11:00), why cultured meat will be bigger than electric vehicles (15:00), the carbon crackdown coming for meat (16:45), foetal bovine serum (20:40), what keeps him up at night (22:50), how cultured meat works (24:30), and the labelling fight (29:45).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Sanfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	Yo.
0:34.1	Technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.7	You take a sample from account about equivalent to one of my fingernails.
0:42.3	So 2.5 millilitres.
0:44.3	The cow doesn't feel anything. It goes back to whatever the cow was doing before.
0:48.3	So theoretically, that little sample in 40 days can produce the equivalent of seven or eight cows' worth of beef,
0:56.7	about 3,000 kilograms or in American terms about £7,000.
1:01.6	Whereas the cows themselves would take 28 months in a feedlot to grow to the point where they could be slaughtered to produce the meat.
1:19.3	Thank you. grow to the point where they can be slaughtered to produce the meat. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and
1:24.1	inside the minds of the top people in tech.
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