Q All right, so 2015. Ari, where did the idea for, you know, for cultivating meat, where did it, where did it come from?
A I, um, I had, uh, one of these Rare vacations that they would, um, give us in residency and went back to my, uh, childhood home of Australia and was in the, the far north parts and, um, where there used to be a lot of rainforest, a lot more than there is right now. And, um, today a lot of it is agricultural land. And it was just kind of looking around and thinking about everything I had learned about, uh, not just stem cells, but what Modern agriculture means, particularly when it comes to beef. And, and I just, you know, kind of asked this question of, can we still eat meat and not eat animals? And, um, thought about, like, you know, we must be able to do this. And, and, and then I started to think about, well, what would it mean to create the fat? And what would it mean to create certain cuts of meat? And didn't really know that, that other people, you We're already working on this. And one in particular, Dr. Mark Post in the Netherlands, um, was somebody who actually, you know, about 15 years before that, I had worked in the same lab with, um, also doing cardiac research. And he had gone on to create the world's first hamburger in this way, and he, uh, organized the first conference about this. And I was just riveted. I, I, you know, I'd never been to the Netherlands. I didn't know why I was so interested in, in this whole field. Um, but I just went and it was incredible bec…
AI assessment note: “kind of asked this question of, can we still eat meat and not eat animals?”