Topic: Production

The Economist Podcasts: The World Ahead: The future of food on Apple Podcasts

The World Ahead: The future of food

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The Economist Podcasts: The World Ahead: The future of food on Apple Podcasts

Are there some things we shouldn't eat? Host Tom Standage travels to the year 2042 to find that animal-based meat is being pushed aside in favour of cultured meat grown in vats, a new industry dominated by three companies. He samples food grown from the cells of endangered animals and hears from a food activist. Back in the present day, we ask The Economist's Jon Fasman and Liz Specht, vice president of Science and Technology at the Good Food Institute, a non-profit group focused on reimagining protein production, to assess the likelihood of this imagined scenario.

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• What important new knowledge did you learn?
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