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Mother Jones
33 – Inside Silicon Valley's Race to the Best Fake Meat
20 minutes Posted Jun 16, 2017 at 4:01 am.
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Scientists and entrepreneurs have taken vegetables to a whole new level by devising futuristic proteins that may finally be tasty enough to convince carnivores. Jenny takes you on a tour of a few of these start-ups and their plans to scale up, and then heads inside a special college class aimed at making fake meat better. Then Kiera interviews Dr. Andrew Freeman, a cardiologist who has started recommending a plant-based diet to his patients.