Laboratory-Grown Meat

BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Professor Ben Garrod guest presents.

As a new 'meaty rice' is created and Fortnum & Mason launch a scotch egg made with cultivated meat that they hope to have on sale as early as next year, we investigate the world of laboratory-grown meat.

Mark Post made the first ever synthetic meat in 2012 to the tune of £200,000. He tells us how these lab-grown meats are made and how, he thinks, they could play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and feeding a growing population. Jenny Kleeman, author of Sex, Robots and Vegan Meat, is more sceptical, citing concerns over food security and if the public really want to eat this stuff.

A stingray called Charlotte has become pregnant, despite there being no other stingrays in her tank at the Aquarium & Shark Lab in North Carolina. Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales considers how this may have happened.

And cosmic minerologist Sara Russell from the Natural History Museum tells us how astronomers tracked and found a particularly unusual asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere and what we might learn from it. 

Presenter: Professor Ben Garrod Producers: Hannah Robins, Florian Bohr, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Jonathan Blackwell Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth 

BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

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0:45.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Science with me, Professor Ben Garrod,
0:49.0	your weekly deep dive into the intricacies and wonder of the world around us. This week we'll be looking
0:54.8	at the rise of lab-grown meat, exciting asteroids, and aquarium virgin births.
1:01.0	Charlotte's going to come around and wish everyone a good morning.
1:04.0	She is still carrying her pup, pups.
1:07.3	We don't know how many.
1:08.8	There you can see that little mama, little mama belly poking out there.
1:13.0	More on that later.
1:15.0	But first, it feels laboratory-grown meat is having a bit of a moment.
1:20.0	Last week, scientists created a hybrid meaty rice.
1:24.0	Fortnham and Mason announced they hope to sell Scotch eggs with synthetic meat by the beginning of next year,
1:30.0	and in the US, lab-grown chicken has already been approved.
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