Episode #021 - English Learning for Curious Minds
Fake Meat
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The fake meat industry is booming. Today we take a look at why that is, and ask ourselves whether there will ever be a day that 'real' meat vanishes from our dinner tables altogether.
In today's episode we cover:
????Different types of 'fake meat'
????????Difference between 'lab-grown' meat and 'plant-based' meat
?????????How lab-grown meat is grown
????????A burger that cost €250,000 and the chicken nugget that costs $50
????Vegan food 20 years ago
????Why people are starting to eat plant-based meat
????Why people are anti plant-based meat
????Nutritional values of plant-based meat
???????Why do we eat meat?
????Investors betting on fake meat
Key vocabulary: Lock in, Differentiation, Protein, Slaughter, Cells, Raise, In essence, Viable, Hurdles, Regulation, Niche, Few and far between, Limited, Vegan, Cardboard, Attuned, Livestock, Plethora, Bleed, Beetroot, In their masses, Intake, Valid, Rosy, Vehemently, Lobby, Efficient, Sitting on their backsides, Lamenting, Cattle, Serving, Better off, Smothered, Obsessed, Texture, Replicated, Ditch, Altogether, Nutritional, Nutrients, Switch, Regulatory, Overcome, Betting, Flooding, Go the way, Fizzles out, Investors, Smart money
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Comentarios
Thank you, still there's yet another concern about fake meat from vegetal source: how many crops will have to be abandoned to grow raw material to make fake meat? how will it affect to biological diversity?
Thank you. Very interesting and useful for me and for my English.