What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
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The Food and Drug Administration gave an important thumbs up to lab-grown chicken, which means we could start seeing it in stores as soon as next year. While billions of dollars have been spent developing lab-grown meat, important questions remain: Is the production of it actually greener than raising livestock? Can it be made affordably? Is it healthy? And will anyone eat it?
Guest: Chloe Sorvino, staff writer on food and agriculture at Forbes, and the author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat.
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 0:30.0 | There's a running joke that journalist Chloe Servino writes about. |
| 0:37.0 | That lab-grown meat is just about to happen, but it's almost here. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a line she's heard a lot. |
| 0:44.0 | I didn't even really want to write about lab-grown meat in this book |
| 0:47.0 | and I came to this place where there was so much momentum |
| 0:50.0 | and there was so much money building in this emerging space |
| 0:54.0 | that I felt like it had to be addressed. |
| 0:58.0 | Chloe's book Raw Deal is all about the U.S. meat industry. |
| 1:03.0 | Lab-grown meat, aka cultivated meat, is just a small sliver, a bite, really, of her book. |
| 1:10.0 | But it's something she says she couldn't ignore. |
| 1:13.0 | There are a lot of institutional investors and billionaires and financiers |
| 1:17.0 | who have invested a lot of money in this and now have invested interests |
| 1:21.0 | in making this come too light and get sold quickly |
| 1:26.0 | even when these products are often going to be selling a profit loss. |
| 1:31.0 | And just a few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration |
| 1:34.0 | gave an important thumbs up to lab-grown chicken from a company called Upside Foods, |
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