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Valeti: Animal agriculture will be unimaginable in 10 to 20 years
“As we start thinking about 10 years out or 20 years out, I think it's going to be unimaginable that we were okay with enslaving billions of animals and doing food production despite the harm it was causing to the human health environment or the economic ineffi…”
Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:01 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
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Valeti: Cell-cultured meat products will reach the market within five years
“Our goal is it's very realistic to have products on the market in the next five years.”
Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
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Valeti: Unlikely world will turn vegetarian or vegan soon
“In any culture you think of, 90% of the world's population eats meat. So thinking that the world could become vegetarian or vegan in the near future, We believe that it's very unlikely.”
Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:34 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
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Valeti: Clean meat scaling requires no new downstream distribution tech
“We see the technology scaling up in a way that does not require any downstream innovation, because the whole distribution change for existing meat exists already.”
Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:37 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
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Valeti: Personalized food innovations will drive future gains in human longevity
“Think about the things that are coming in terms of longevity. People are living longer and longer Every year or every decade, despite not having any innovation in food at all, that's been an area that's been virtually untouched. Now think about what if you sta…”
Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:47 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
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