The next global agricultural revolution | Bruce Friedrich

Conventional meat production causes harm to our environment and presents risks to global health, but people aren't going to eat less meat unless we give them alternatives that cost the same (or less) and that taste the same (or better). In an eye-opening talk, food innovator and TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich shows the plant- and cell-based products that could soon transform the global meat industry -- and your dinner plate.

[KarthiSrinivasan]

Shoutout to guy in the back who cheers for 6-day chicken production

[Finessence]

Also gotta save the bees! Theyre dying at an alarming rate (i think 75 percent reduction of beehives in maryland, since 2016) and their pollination is directly related to our food supply. Trees, bees, and mushrooms, are the keys to maintain bio diversity and life on this planet. Humans need to chill out with fossil fuels, forresting, and spreading toxic chemicals everywhere.

[tombb]

Please leave a reference identifying the study put out by the 30 researchers, so we can examine their findings ourselves.

[shmookins]

I wish he would've talked about the current and future state of cell based and plant based meat production. I'm in for cell based meat production. I just don't know where it's at or what are the challenges/breakthroughs in the field.

[jhunt]

"We are quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers" - Peter Singer 🌍🍔🤔

[EveTheGuardian]

3:06 How can anyone be against this? Not only is it good for the planet, it just sounds awesome

"What do you do for a living?" " *I GROW MEAT* "

[ossen]

*PLANT based diet seems to be the future*
Who could've thought...

[brucecook]

This has me thinking alot. I have an appointment tomorrow for a nutrition group, I'll bring this up and see if they have any advice. I'm due to grocery shop this week, might be a great time to tweak my diet a bit more. Thank you!!

[davidford]

Third alternative: conservation agriculture. Mob graze cattle on grass as part of the process of soil healing and carbon sequestration in topsoil. No need for antibiotics this way either. More profitable for farmers too.

[wildricerust]

Excellent talk. Quick and to the point, yet meaningful and effective.

[MrSirAussie]

TIME IS NOW TO ACT OR ELSE WE ARE SAID....Can't wait any longer for more meat breweries to commence production, all over the for the empowering message.

[MachTheShaman]

The future is in our hands, can’t wait for this journey.

[drmosfet]

When I see parents and children at fast food restaurants takings one or two bytes from a hamburger and throwing the rest out because they gotton bored with it, is one of the biggest problems! To me that showing disrespect to the animal life, and causing more animals to give there life needlessly, the vegetarians says that this artificial meat is Better Than the Real Thing? the sad thing is he might be right, considering the way they mistreat the animals in their greed driven system. As far as global warming goes he's recommending a patch on a patch on a patch with unknown outcomes. Safe and inexpensive energy is the first place to start, after waiting 60 years and still no viable Fusion Reactor, maybe it's time for a thorium molten salt reactor.

[sownheard]

Make the plant meat cheaper than normal meat and I'm 100% in

[tomg]

Here is a news flash. Every time some people get a sore throat they are off to the doctor to get antibiotics. As the Swiss have pointed out, lakes are contaminated with deposits of antibiotics from human's waste (not animals). And I know farmers and ranchers who would take great exception to the broad brush of prevalence of antibiotic use in their herds. It is the exception not the rule.


Also, why do these meat lab advocates always exclude information on the actual nutritional values of Omega 3, Zinc and other nutrients that ruminant's create in their meat from their diet? I guess the solution to blandness will be to add multiple chemical compounds to 'enhance' the flavor that way we can have the same unhealthy insulin receptor damaging foods Americans stuff themselves with already.


Finally, 25% of the earths land is pasture and forest and inherently ruminant friendly. Only 4% is arable, highly depleted already and being paved over at an alarming rate. True accounting needs to take into account how these depleted plots of land are going to be healed to produce the plant based diet so strongly advocated here. Conveniently left out of the equation is the irrigation, fertilization and transportation required to ramp up the plant based diet model as well as the expense of supplements needed for nutritional health.


As the Chinese learned from Mao's collectivization of farmers, millions can starve to death when large hasty solutions are applied to food supplies. Whatever is done, we need to observe and learn from the earth's free gifts and apply care thereto. Care requires four things: love, patience, awareness of our ignorance and action informed by the first three. With such care, peace is possible as well as the well being of our planetary home.

[tyresestewartforeverabsolu]

These are the type of stocks you buy early

[ashishg]

Brilliant idea to curb climate change without compromising the present needs itself....

Thanks TED

[Darkryers]

I'm vegetarian as of this year and couldn't be happier about it. Great talk.

[mceliniak]

The problem is industrial agriculture, what have been proposed here is more of the same from the consumer point of view. Centralization. We need the opposite - regenerative ag.

[LuxiBelle]

They had this issue resolved in Spy Kids. They grow McDonalds in a microwave. How is this still an issue?