Can We End Factory Farming Without Giving Up Meat? (with Bruce Friedrich)
About this episode
The episode discusses the inefficiencies and ethical concerns of factory farming and explores alternatives to conventional meat production.
Read the full transcript here. Why is producing meat so inefficient? How does animal agriculture contribute to hunger and malnutrition? How large are the environmental costs of meat production? How does industrial animal agriculture increase the risk of antibiotic resistance and future pandemics? Would organic or free-range farming solve these problems? What are the biggest sources of suffering for animals on factory farms? Why do people who oppose animal cruelty continue to buy factory-farmed meat? Why does meat consumption keep rising around the world despite decades of advocacy encouraging people to eat less of it? What exactly are plant-based and cultivated meat, and how are they made? Could cultivated meat eventually become a one-to-one replacement for conventional meat? What scientific and engineering problems still need to be solved? Why did plant-based meat attract so much excitement before its growth began to stall? What did companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat get right, and what challenges remain? Why has cultivated-meat research developed differently from plant-based-meat research? Could government funding accelerate alternative meat in the same way public…
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