A new Netflix documentary, A Life on Our Planet, features naturalist Sir David Attenborough encouraging people to cut down on meat to help the planet: “We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters. If we had a mostly plant-based diet we could increase the yield of the land.”
For those who cannot imagine a life without eating meat, science is engineering new sustainable sources as discussed in a recent BBC podcast at the link below.
Would you feel better tucking into a juicy steak knowing that the cow it comes from is still happily living out its life in a field somewhere? Biotechnology could make that possible.
Manuela Saragosa hears from Shannon Falconer at pet food maker Because Animals, who grows real meat in a lab. Jon McIntyre at Motif FoodWorks explains how new technology has made his plant-based products tastier. We also hear from Tony Seba at the think tank, Rethink X. He believes we’ll be designing food like software in the future.
Here is a direct audio link.
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