Grace: I'm cool with lab grown meat as a concept, but i don't know why we need it. John: We've got to get to a point where we're like, ob we don't crave meat so much that we're willing to put this much energy into simply making an analogue of it. Why not just make something delicious out of the things that we have that are renewable and that make sense? And actually, ju grins tin swarms of bees into the space station. But what could go wrong? You callitlof oltin. Are you cool lab ro lab growned meat?
How good is food in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Jordan Klepper feast on food science and the challenges we face sending food to space with chef Alton Brown, food chemist Dr. Arielle Johnson and NASA food scientist Dr. Grace Douglas.
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