From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner
David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world.
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
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Show Notes
At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are undernourished. As the 18th century economist Robert Malthus forecast, we seem on a path where the planet can’t produce enough food for the projected 10 billion people who will be alive in 2050. Climate change and wars will only make the global food situation more precarious.
Is large scale famine inevitable?
David Kaplan, a global leader in the new field of cellular agriculture, doesn’t think so. He believes the steaks and fish fillets that he and other scientists are literally growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world. What do you think?