Let’s eat lab meat

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Happy New Year! Maybe you’re interested in trying new things? Sean and his mom are. In today’s episode, they drive to Alameda, California to try “hybrid meat” — a mixture of lab-grown meat and veggie meat substitute that could deliver a more sustainable (but still meaty) future. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year!
0:02.3	What are your resolutions?
0:03.3	You open to trying new things?
0:05.6	How about lab-grown meat?
0:09.9	They take some chicken cells, real chicken cells from real chickens, then they feed them hungry
0:14.9	chicken cells, salts, sugars, amino acids, a few cells turn into tons of cells, then they
0:21.9	feed them more and more and more.
0:23.2	A lot of cells turn into a mushy chicken substance.
0:27.1	This is all happening in bigger and bigger tanks as they go.
0:30.5	It kind of looks like brewing beer.
0:32.2	Then they separate this mushy chicken substance from all the nutrients they've been feeding
0:36.2	it, and that mushy chicken product to gourmet chefs and food developers who mold it into
0:41.5	something that you'd actually want to eat, something with texture that replicates muscles
0:46.6	and flesh, then it's time to grub.
0:49.2	If you're like, hell no, but someone else can go right ahead.
0:52.8	Well, I've got great news for you.
0:55.0	I'm about to, in a minute, on today's planned.
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