Reimagining seafood production with Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck of Wildtype (2022)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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When Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck met in 2011, they had no intention of starting a business. Aryé was a cardiologist, and Justin was a diplomat who had lived in countries all over the world. But their chance meeting at a dinner party led to a deep friendship focused on working together to change the world. Through regular Saturday morning brainstorming sessions, they settled on pursuing a scientific approach to growing meat for human consumption.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Aryé and Justin discuss the problems with modern seafood production and how their company, Wildtype, hopes to revolutionize the industry by using stem cells to cultivate real, sushi-grade salmon... without harming any actual fish.

This episode was produced by Chris Maccini and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Maggie Luthar.

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1:45.0	Meantime, I hope you enjoy one of our favorite episodes from last year with the founders of Wildtype.
1:50.0	It's a company working on lab-grown salmon, just like the real thing without the actual fish.
1:56.0	So, I hope you enjoy it. Here it is.
2:05.0	Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Ross.
2:09.0	Alright, so a lot of us have made the decision to either cut back or completely cut out meat from our lives.
2:17.0	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.
2:26.0	But I still eat meat, and I still eat seafood, and admittedly, I have occasional pains of guilt knowing that I'm contributing to a bigger problem.
2:37.0	The livestock production is a huge contributor to global carbon emissions.
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