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7 Aug 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
“What I would say on genetics is that what feels way more achievable to me in the near term is to get rid of the genetic physical problems that ail these animals.”
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- Lewis Bollard
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- 7 Aug 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…But they're not pumped about the cultivated meat either, right? No, sure. This is why you need a whole bunch of different approaches. There's no one solution that is going to satisfy everyone. What I would say on genetics is that what feels way more achievable to me in the near term is to get rid of the genetic physical problems that ail these animals. For instance, we've bred these chickens to be mutants that collapse under their own weight. We know that we can breed for far higher welfare birds that are still commercially viable. Indeed, there are companies, and there are places like Denmark, where the industry has already moved entirely toward these higher welfare birds. They have way better welfare outcomes that suffer way less. What's different about them?…
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