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Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food.

This week, Tad Friend joins to discuss the growing alternative meat industry, the plant-based crusade of Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown and the significant environmental benefits of ditching the beef patty.


"Value Meal" by Tad Friend for The New Yorker


Email: slatemoney@slate.com


Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Slate Money Food and welcome Tad Friend.

0:16.5

You are here to talk to us about plant-based meats.

0:22.1

As anyone who has been following the Beyond Meat Share Price knows,

0:25.7

this is something which a lot of people care a lot about and are making a lot of money on.

0:30.1

Who are you and how do you know about this?

0:32.6

I'm a staff writer at the New Yorker, and I know about it because I spent about six months

0:36.7

writing about the world of plant-based meats and focusing particularly on the CEO, Staff writer at the New Yorker, and I know about it because I spent about six months writing

0:37.5

about the world of plant-based meats and focusing particularly on the CEO and founder of Impossible

0:42.9

Foods. Pat Brown, who's a former Stanford University biochemist, who started the company

0:48.4

with the idea that if they were successful in originally just making a plant-based burger

0:54.1

and they could grow it, that eventually they were really in originally just making a plant-based burger and they could grow it,

0:55.7

that eventually if they grew it really, really fast, they could get rid of all animal food

1:01.3

products across the globe by the 2035.

1:05.3

It's a huge ambition, which we're going to talk about Pat Brown's ambitions.

1:10.3

We're going to talk about the Beyond Meat SharePraise. We're going to talk about Pat Brown's ambitions. We're going to talk about

1:11.0

the Beyond Meat SharePrice. We're going to talk about grass fed versus green fed beef. We're going to

1:16.1

talk a little bit about your friend in mind, Mr. Dan Barber. And we're going to talk about

1:21.5

how to cook an impossible burger and how it differs perhaps from cooking a regular burger.

1:27.0

All that coming up on Slate Money Food.

1:32.0

So, Tad, how often do you eat fake meat?

1:36.0

That's one of those questions that immediately begs the question of whether the question is

1:39.8

correct.

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