Dead animals, clean meat, mushroom solution

Paul Shapiro, TEDxSouthLakeTahoe, 1/3/18; Ash Wells, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The best, cleanest, healthiest, tastiest "burgers" will be made from mushroom fibers.

Clean meat: the clean energy of food | Better Meat's Paul Shapiro

We're not cannibals. We won't eat animals.

(TEDx Talks) Since the dawn of Homo sapiens, animals have satiated one species’ craving for bloody meat.

But with a growing human population and capitalist demand for animal products increasing, raising such huge numbers of animals to become food poses serious challenges.

But what if human could have animals and eat them, too? Enter "clean meat" — real meat, grown without animals — which has now moved from science fiction to science fact.

We would sooner eat each other.

Paul Shapiro serves as the vice president of policy for The Humane Society of the United States, the world’s largest animal protection organization.

In 1995, Shapiro founded Compassion Over Killing as a high school club, building it into a national organization over the next decade.

An inductee into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame, Shapiro has published dozens of articles about animal welfare in publications ranging from daily newspapers to academic journals.

He’s also the author of a book on the clean meat movement (Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx.