This TED Talk Daily podcast features Fei Luo discussing her company Liven's innovative approach to producing collagen. Luo explains the ubiquitous nature of collagen in food and consumer products, highlighting the current reliance on animal-derived collagen and its ethical and environmental implications. She details Liven's process of genetically modifying yeast to produce collagen sustainably, eliminating the need for animal slaughter. The podcast concludes with a vision of a future food system transformed by this technology, offering slaughter-free meat alternatives and various collagen-based products. This offers a potential solution to the ethical and environmental challenges associated with current collagen production methods.
