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Cultivated meat: A conversation with Ivy Farm
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English - February 01, 2023 10:17 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBTechnology Science greentech sustainability green environment technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, we speak to Richard Dillon, CEO of Ivy Farm Technologies, who talks us through the current environmental issue they are trying to tackle. Raising livestock for meat, eggs, and milk is estimated to generate more than 14% of global greenhouse gasses, the second highest source of emissions and greater than all transport combined. It is one of the leading causes of deforestation, biodiversity loss, and water pollution. But with a reluctance to change our daily lives, can science save our bacon? Does Ivy Farm, a revolutionary cultivated meat production company developing the technology to grow real meat at scale without farming, have the solution?