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Medium Rare: What’s Next For Meat?
1 hour 5 minutes Posted Jun 12, 2026 at 7:15 am.
Introduction
Robbie Lockie on changing his diet
Robbie Lockie on who is choosing plant based meat
Robbie Lockie on how plant based meat competes on taste
Robbie Lockie on the future of plant based meat
Michael Grunwald making more food with less land
Michael Grunwald on the efficiency of industrial agriculture
Michael Grunwald on rotational grazing
Ariana Brocious’ cultivated salmon tasting
Claire Bomkamp on the state of cultivated meat
Claire Bomkamp on energy use of cultivated meat
Claire Bomkamp on what cuts cultivated meat can create
Claire Bomkamp on the price of cultivated meat
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Industrial agriculture accounts for a significant share of global emissions, but meat alternatives face real hurdles in becoming a mainstay of consumer diets. The hype around plant-based meat has cooled: hurt by price gaps, ultra-processed rhetoric, and culture-war politics around masculinity and food identity. Yet feeding a growing planet will require eating less beef, wasting less food, and producing more food with less land. Cultivated meat – made from animal cells and grown in a lab –  could offer a different path forward, especially in hybrid form combining plant and cultivated proteins. What might the future of meat look like? 
Guests: 
Robbie Lockie, CEO, Founder, foodfacts.org
Michael Grunwald, Journalist and author, “We Are Eating the Earth”
Claire Bomkamp, Senior Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat & Seafood, Good Food Institute
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