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“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…”

“But I can only talk about what we've seen so far, and from the meat that we've harvested so far, we've made things like meatballs and fajitas, and it's virtually indistinguishable from whether it comes from a grocery store or from a conventional meat market.”

“Our goal is it's very realistic to have products on the market in the next five years.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The reason bacteria gets in there is because you're in the process of slaughter, there's fecal contamination, or when you have an animal not fully washed before slaughter, that's how E. Coli or salmonella get in there, and then they multiply because meat is fo…”

“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…”

“We do take cells that already are in areas that people enjoy eating, but we also have other cells, which can reproduce and self-renew themselves and become very high-quality muscle tissue.”