Space: The final food frontier
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Is space the final frontier for meat grown from animal stem cells?
Elizabeth Hotson asks whether growing steaks under micro gravity conditions could help in the quest for food security and whether, back on earth, consumers could be persuaded to stomach meat reared in labs.
We hear from Didier Toubia, the CEO of Aleph Farms who defends his space meat mission from accusations of gimmickry.
Seren Kel, the science and technology manager for the Europe region of the Good Food Institute, gives her view on the environmental impact of cell-gown meat and Dr Jason Michael Thomas, senior lecturer in psychology at Aston University explains how reluctant consumers might be persuaded to try new and strange-sounding foods.
Presenter: Elizabeth Hotson Producer: Elizabeth Hotson
(Photo description: The Solar system. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:23.8 | Hello, this is Business Daily and I'm Elizabeth Hotson. On today's program, |
| 0:29.3 | will space be the final frontier for meat grown from animal stem cells? |
| 0:34.6 | When we're able to produce meat on the international space station or on the moon, for instance, we're able to produce meat on the International Space Station or on the moon, for instance, |
| 0:41.2 | we're able to produce meat in the middle of the Sahara or in the middle of the Antarctic. |
| 0:46.6 | And once the regulatory and practical barriers of growing and selling cell-grown meat are overcome, |
| 0:52.5 | how do you combat the, well, er, factor? |
| 0:55.6 | I think that meat grown in a lab from animal stem cells |
| 0:58.9 | sound really quite disgusting. |
| 1:01.5 | It's kind of a bit like having a science experiment as a meal. |
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| 1:16.5 | In a galaxy far, far away, but without the Star Wars music, as we can't afford the rights, |
| 1:21.7 | colonies of human settlers are sitting down to dinner. |
| 1:25.0 | It's state night and the meat has been freshly harvested, but there are no cows in sight |
| 1:29.6 | or sheep or any other livestock for that matter, just a clinically clean kitchen with a few steel |
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