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Agriculture as it is practiced today—industrial scale ranching and farming—is already a huge contributor to the accelerating pace of climate change. Feeding a growing global population implies even greater greenhouse gas emissions, as well as energy, water and land usage. Moreover, the pandemic demonstrated the fragility and vulnerability of the global food supply chain, as worldwide economic, social, and trade dislocations led to food shortages, distribution problems, hunger, and malnutrition.

Is there a better alternative? Can we produce enough food to meet humanity's growing needs and wants, without further environmental damage? Is it possible to move the center point of the production process from the farm or the sea into the laboratory?

Our guest on this week's New Thinking for a New World podcast has positive answers to those questions. Didier Toubia is co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms, a company based in Israel that grows steaks from cow cells. Real, honest-to-god, good tasting steaks—without the downsides of factory farming.