Medium Rare
Climate One
Medium Rare: What’s Next For Meat?
- Published
- June 12, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 5m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses Industrial agriculture accounts for a significant share of global emissions, but meat alternatives f…
Summary
Industrial agriculture accounts for a significant share of global emissions, but meat alternatives face real hurdles in becoming a mainstay of consumer diets. The hype around plant-based meat has cooled: hurt by price gaps, ultra-processed rhetoric, and culture-war politics around masculinity and food identity. Yet feeding a growing planet will require ea…
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Industrial agriculture accounts for a significant share of global emissions, but meat alternatives face real hurdles in becoming a mainstay of consumer diets. The hype around plant-based meat has cooled: hurt by price gaps, ultra-processed rhetoric, and culture-war politics around masculinity and food identity. Yet feeding a growing planet will require eating less beef, wasting less food, and producing more food with less land. Cultivated meat – made from animal cells and grown in a lab – could