Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?

(Originally aired August 13, 2018) Guest: Ali Bouzari, Food Scientist, Author of “Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food,” and Co-founder of Pilot R&D Meat grown in a test-tube is currently possible, in small amounts. But a bunch of companies say they’re on the verge of being able to sell you a whole filet of fish, nugget of chicken or slice of foie gras made in the laboratory. PETA – the animal rights group - supports the idea because it doesn’t require force-feeding or slaughtering animals. The beef, pork and poultry industries would prefer these mad scientists not call their stuff meat, at all.