#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption

<p>"There have been literally thousands of years of breeding and living with animals to optimise these kinds of problems. But because we're just so early on with alternative proteins and there's so much white space, it's actually just really exciting to know that we can keep on innovating and being far more efficient than this existing technology — which, fundamentally, is just quite inefficient. You're feeding animals a bunch of food to then extract a small fraction of their biomass to then eat that.</p><p>Animal agriculture takes up 83% of farmland, but produces just 18% of food calories. So the cu...