We can develop materials that are very much similar to leather,

because they're made of the same stuff as leather,

but they can actually explore entirely new design, performance, and functionality.

And we do go through a tanning process,

but because we don't need to remove hair, flesh, and fat,

our tanning process is actually much cleaner,

uses lower amounts of chemicals and more efficient.

So the implications of biofabrication are actually quite profound

at many levels, for the manufacturer, for the designer, for the consumer, and of course

for the planet.

So for the manufacturer, for the manufacturer all of a sudden you can go from a, oh, let me go

back, for the manufacturer all of a sudden you can go from

a process that is subtractive to one that is additive. So rather than having to take, raise

animals in the field and transport them to slaughter and remove their hide and remove their hair, flesh

and fat from that hide, partially tan that material, and then ship it halfway around the world.

All of a sudden, you can grow what you need.

You can grow the collagen.

You can do it very efficiently using these giant brew tanks.

And then you can ship that collagen to where you actually need

it to be able to convert it into the materials that you want to make. So it's a completely

additive process rather than a highly subtractive one. Also, you take a process that takes

years to raise an animal in the field and tens of thousands

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