Have your buffalo wings, save the chicken. Step inside a lab-grown meat factory with us to see the future of food.

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Lab-grown meat, cultivated meat, cell-based meat, slaughter-free meat: All of these terms refer to the process of creating real meat from animal cells, despite names that may allude to a vegan product.

What benefits are there to growing meat from chicken cells rather than raising animals for slaughter? Industrial animal agriculture is responsible for an estimated 15 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions, and with demand for meat projected to double in the next decade, this technology could offer a more sustainable option.

Come with us as we step inside a lab-grown meat facility, and become some of the first to taste-test chicken that was grown in a bioreactor instead of on a factory farm.

00:00 Welcome to Hard Reset
00:27 Why grow meat in a lab?
00:55 What are the benefits of producing meat this way?
01:36 Step inside the UPSIDE Foods factory
02:33 What is the science behind this process?
02:56 Take a tour of this lab-grown meat facility
04:00 What are potential downsides to this process?
04:36 Are antibiotics used in this process?
05:11 How do we scale lab-grown meat?
05:55 What is the timeline for this process vs. animal agriculture?
06:26 Taste test: What does lab-grown chicken taste like?
10:15 How will lab-grown meat impact the future of food?

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