S2E4: Meat and Potatoes

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🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The potato seemed strange and unappetizing when it first arrived in Europe. But it grew into a wonder food that helped solve the continent’s hunger problems. Can its journey tell us what to expect from current efforts to replace animal meat with societally healthier meat alternatives made from plants, insects, or cells grown in petri dishes?

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0:00.0	Hi, can you tell us about the Beyond Meat burger?
0:07.0	The Beyond Meat Burger, so basically the Plum Burger is really amazing
0:11.0	because it tastes like proper meat, but there's no meat.
0:15.0	It's made of mashed peas, red cabbage and sunflower oil.
0:20.0	Okay, I'm going to try one of those.
0:21.8	Yeah.
0:22.7	Yeah, me too, please.
0:24.0	There you go.
0:25.0	And that comes with fries.
0:26.4	Yeah, they'll come out with worthemary, salted chips.
0:28.7	Okay.
0:29.1	Perfect. Thank you guys.
0:31.1	Tom and I went to a gourmet burger restaurant in London, but we didn't get burgers made
0:35.7	from ground beef.
0:36.5	We got veggie burgers made from one of these new, trendy meat substitutes
0:40.5	that try to perfectly capture the taste and texture of meat using plants.
0:46.2	Thank you very much.
0:47.8	Thank you.
0:49.0	All right.
0:49.9	What do you think?
0:50.8	Visually assess...
0:53.3	I mean, with the buns on top, it looks like a burger.
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