{"id":364007,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=364007"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:22","slug":"uma-valeti","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/uma-valeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat is wasteful &#8212; and delicious. Uma Valeti is changing the way we grow meat."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-364007 \">Cofounder &amp; CEO, Memphis Meats<br \/>\nSan Leandro, California<\/aside>\n<p>A lot of startups want to make animal flesh obsolete with tastier, more environmentally friendly products: Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Mosa Meats, to name a few. If one of these companies can convince Americans that its new product is better than meat, it could put a dent in the livestock industry, which is responsible for roughly 4.2 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most audacious of those companies is Memphis Meats. Instead of engineering a meat replacement, Valeti\u2019s startup is growing actual meat in a lab. \u201cThe products we\u2019re producing are the delicious meat we\u2019ve enjoyed for thousands of years &#8212; we\u2019re just changing the process by which it\u2019s produced,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote]\u201cMeat production has been essentially unchanged since we first domesticated farm animals 12,000 years ago. We think it\u2019s long overdue for innovation.\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>Valeti isn\u2019t your average Silicon Valley founder &#8212; he\u2019s a doctor, a cardiologist to be precise. He previously worked on experiments that used stem cells to regrow damaged heart tissue. If we can grow heart muscle with stem cells, he thought, why can\u2019t we grow meat? With a team of foodies and scientists, he\u2019s doing just that. Last year they fried up and ate their first no-death meatball &#8212; the video went viral. Now, they\u2019re working to take their cultured meat to the masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entrepreneur is making a better burger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490291,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-364007","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-economy","grist-50-food","grist-50-13"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meat is wasteful - and delicious. 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