
As soon as I find out, I’ll let you know on Twitter and, of course, at .īut for now…thank you. This is the last episode of “Unsung Science” season 1, and at this point, I haven’t yet heard if there’ll be a second season.

Season 1, Episode 15: “How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth.” I’m David Pogue, and this is “Unsung Science.” Story Pat We are not going to save ourselves from catastrophic climate change without replacing animals in the food system. Pat Brown founded the company not to become the next billionaire-but because livestock are a disaster for the climate. is to replace beef, pork, chicken, fish, and steak with foods that look, cook, taste, and smell just as good or better-but don’t involve raising or slaughtering any animals.

Guest: Pat Brown, CEO and founder, Impossible Foods. His Impossible Burger is already a megahit-but can he be serious about replacing all beef, pork, chicken, and fish by 2035? He vowed to create perfect meat replicas using only plant ingredients. So Pat Brown left his job as a Stanford biochemistry professor to dedicate his life to fixing the problem. They belch out more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry. People talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals like cows generates more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry.

