You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day could have implications for the future of our meat because

science is looking for ways to build a better burger, but without cows.

Two groups of scientists for similar reasons are looking at opposite ways of changing how meat is made.

One of them says we're just going to grow the edible parts of the animal.

The other one tries to simulate meat with plants.

The basic idea for culturing meat in a lab starts with cells from an animal.

They put those cells on little beads or other scaffolds, put them in a bioreactor,

and then they use growth factors and nutrients, usually that come from plants after.

A lot of processing or something like that into multiplying the cells.

It looks like two dozen startups in that working in ways to use lab culturing techniques

that aren't perfected yet to make food.

Cultured meat is one of the two high-sized endeavors to get animals out of agriculture.

The other group wants to take every bit of the animal out of agriculture and make meat from plants,

which is making plants from meat as in you can't really do it, but that's just an aside.

They're a folks' ambulaculobiology of identifying proteins or other molecules that give

meats their flavor and textures so that they can then take junk food and make them taste like meat.

Oh, wait, sorry, that wasn't in my actual script here that I prepared ahead of time,

but that's what they're doing.

I don't care if it tastes like meat.

If it's not meat and it doesn't get processed in your body,

like meat is not the same thing.

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