Climate Change: Are We Nearing Tipping Point? | Firstpost Conversations Episode 6 | SHOWSHA

What does climate change mean beyond alarmist headlines and what can we do about it? Rupali Mehra asks Earth System Scientist Dr Raghu Murtugudde, The Good Food Institute’s Varun Deshpande, Data Analyst Ravishankar Mantha and Firstpost’s science reporter Kavya Narayanan.​

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What is plant-based meat?
Plant-based meat is made by breaking down meat into its component parts - proteins, fats, water, etc - and recreating each component from a plant source. While plant-based meat uses soy or wheat, companies like Beyond Meat also make soy-free and gluten-free versions with ingredients like pea protein, potato starch, coconut oil and beetroot. In this way, plant-based meats bio-mimic their animal-based counterparts, in the way they taste, smell, and sizzle, right down to the way they bleed.

What is cell-based meat?
Cell-based meat is genuine animal meat that is grown from cells, outside of an animal. Rather than growing muscle tissue inside live animals, cell-based meat is produced by taking a few animal cells, without harming the animal. A mixture of nutrients are added, to grow those cells into a piece of meat in a clean facility. As a result, we get pure meat, the production of which doesn’t require antibiotics or slaughter, and doesn’t suffer from fecal E. coli, salmonella, or other contamination.

The connection to climate-change:
Worldwide, industrial animal agriculture contributes more to climate change than the direct emissions from the entire transportation sector combined (i.e. the exhaust of every plane, train and automobile). About 15% of all climate change can be attributed to animal agriculture. Plant-based and clean meat are far less polluting and far less wasteful.

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Lady, just put a dimmer switch on the Sun and you're set. Otherwise, stop trying to control something only God can control - the weather.

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