SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Most 'clean meat' startups won't be successful"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Joshua March, co-founder and chief executive of SciFi Foods, to talk about the first approvals for lab-grown meat in America (4:45), building their pilot plant (6:45), using Crispr to engineer cells (7:50), the industry's dominant technology approach (12:30), why most of the 150 cultivated meat startups will fail (16:10), why clean meat will ultimately supplant slaughterhouses and industrial agriculture (17:50), the Biden administration’s support of the industry (21:00), leaning into the science fiction aspect of lab-grown meat (24:00), and the coming shake-out (25:10),

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	At the University of Southampton, they won't just teach you.
0:03.8	They'll challenge, support and empower you.
0:06.5	Visit an Open Day to see why they're targeted by top employers
0:09.7	and to find out how their incredible research and mind-blowing facilities will shape your learning.
0:15.7	Hi, I'm Joshie, a math student here at Southampton.
0:18.7	Open Days really help me pitch your living here.
0:20.6	You can chat to students like me, meet our brilliant academics,
0:23.4	explore the campuses and get a real feel for what it's like studying here.
0:26.7	Book your place.
0:27.7	Search Southampton Open Days.
0:32.5	Yo!
0:34.3	Technology.
0:35.3	What is it all about?
0:36.7	There's certainly a lot of consumers who are just excited to try it, you know, partly because
0:40.6	of the novelty. But there's also probably a large number of consumers who are cautious
0:45.0	and concerned and think it's weird and think it's sci-fi. And I don't think you persuade them
0:50.3	that it's not by trying to hide all of the science and try to make it sound as natural as possible.
0:55.0	You know, ultimately our job as an industry is to say, yeah, like, it is pretty sci-fi,
0:59.0	but it's like actually amazing that we can grow real meat without the animals.
1:03.0	And let's make that fun and safe and do that through, again, transparency and honesty.
1:25.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
1:28.5	I'm your host, Danny Fawkinson.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Will Morley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Will Morley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.