Explained — S02E08 — The Future of Meat

00:00:07 Every ten seconds, humans kill roughly 24,000 animals for food.

00:01:10 how will future generations satisfy their craving for meat?

00:02:26 At the time,

00:03:29 This influx of protein and nutrients may be why our bodies changed.

00:04:24 And then, starting a century ago,

00:05:17 you understand that it must be slaughtered

00:06:23 Steele was able to sell her chickens more cheaply.

00:07:29 The only reason animals don't get sick from being packed so tightly together

00:08:30 than we've grown in all of human history.

00:09:28 The problem, of course, is that we like meat,

00:10:22 suggested it could replace meat in consumers' diets,

00:11:19 On the other end of that tube is a little funnel

00:12:19 and more than five times as much sodium.

00:13:09 Do you like veggie burgers?

00:14:11 is made entirely of plants?

00:15:16 There are four main components involved.

00:16:09 does it taste any good?

00:17:03 Right now, the liquid used is fetal bovine serum.

00:18:02 in regularly eating meat grown in a lab.

00:18:55 for example, it's very interesting.

00:19:55 feel passionately that cell-based meat isn't the same thing.

00:20:43 And the animals we eat have been engineered over millennia

00:21:50 The idea of meat is a lot more...

00:22:49 Why can't we do this? And the answer is we probably can.