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Consider the Lobster | Barbecue Earth

Consider the Lobster | Barbecue Earth

FromBarbecue Earth


Consider the Lobster | Barbecue Earth

FromBarbecue Earth

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

There’s a lot to learn from the lobster. Its transformation from disdained prison food to fine-dining delicacy reveals how culture shapes our palate and how people could start to get a taste for food that does less damage to the planet than a bacon cheeseburger. In Episode 5, we look to the future of alternative proteins—from bean burgers to lab-grown nuggets—and ask what it would look like to live in a world less centered on traditional meat production.
Released:
Mar 5, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (11)

Barbecue Earth is a six-part narrative podcast about meat. But it’s not about the best way to grill a delicious steak. It’s about meat as a commodity, a powerful industry, and a major reason why our planet is overheating. Join Heewon Park and Noah Gordon of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on a world tour of meat’s global impacts. We’ll look at a farmer’s revolt in the Netherlands, cattle laundering in Brazil, lab-grown meat in California, the United Nations’ reluctance to talk about what meat production does to the planet, and much more.