Reimagining seafood production with Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck of Wildtype (2022)

Hey everyone, so the How I Built This Lab team is taking a little time off for the summer, but don't worry, we'll be back in your feed with fresh How I Built This Lab episodes in just a few weeks. Meantime, I hope you enjoy one of our favorite episodes from last year with the founders of WildType. It's a company working on lab grown salmon, just like the real thing. Without the actual fish. So hope you enjoy it. Here it is. Hello and welcome to how I built this lab.

I'm Guy Raz. Alright, so a lot of us have made the decision to either cut back or completely cut out meat from our lives. For some people, it's a moral issue around harming animals. For other people, it's health, and for me. It's because of the environmental impact of meat consumption, but

I still eat meat and I still eat seafood and admittedly I have occasional pangs of guilt knowing that I'm contributing to a bigger problem. Livestock production is a huge contributor to global carbon emissions. Our oceans are being overfished, and the huge amount of microplastics floating deep in the sea. are making their way into our fish, and consequently...

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