ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bruce Friedrich - Food innovator
TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich plans to compete with the meat industry on its own terms -- by creating alternatives to conventional meat that taste the same or better and cost less.

Why you should listen

Bruce Friedrich is cofounder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), an international nonprofit that is fostering a sustainable, healthy and just agricultural system through food innovation. With branches in the United States, India, Israel, Brazil, Europe and Asia Pacific, GFI is accelerating the production of plant-based and cell-based meat, eggs and dairy in order to bolster the global protein supply while protecting our environment, promoting global health and preventing food insecurity and animal cruelty. Friedrich has penned op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Wired and many other publications. He has appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Friedrich has coauthored two books, contributed chapters to seven more, and has written seven law review articles. Watch his TEDxSonoma talk here.

Friedrich graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center and holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.

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Bruce Friedrich | Speaker | TED.com
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Bruce Friedrich: The next global agricultural revolution

Bruce Friedrich: A próxima revolução agrícola global

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A produção convencional de carne prejudica nosso meio ambiente e apresenta riscos à saúde global, mas as pessoas não vão comer menos carne, a menos que ofereçamos alternativas que custem o mesmo (ou menos) e que tenham o mesmo sabor (ou melhor). Em uma palestra reveladora, o inovador em alimentos e Bolsista TED, Bruce Friedrich, mostra os produtos à base de plantas e células que podem transformar em breve a indústria global de carne, e o seu prato do jantar.
- Food innovator
TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich plans to compete with the meat industry on its own terms -- by creating alternatives to conventional meat that taste the same or better and cost less. Full bio

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In 2019, humanity received a warning:
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Em 2019, a humanidade recebeu um aviso:
30 dos principais cientistas
do mundo liberaram resultados
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30 of the world's leading scientists
released the results
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de um estudo substancial de 3 anos
sobre a agricultura global
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of a massive three-year study
into global agriculture
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and declared that meat production
is destroying our planet
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e declararam que a produção de carne
está destruindo nosso planeta
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and jeopardizing global health.
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e prejudicando a saúde global.
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One of the study's authors explained
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Um dos autores do estudo explicou
que: "A humanidade agora representa
uma ameaça à estabilidade do planeta...
00:31
that "humanity now poses a threat
to the stability of the planet ...
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[This requires] nothing less than
a new global agricultural revolution."
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[Isso requer] nada menos
que uma nova revolução agrícola global".
00:40
As somebody who's spent
the last two decades
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Como alguém que passou
as duas últimas décadas
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advocating a shift away
from industrial meat production,
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defendendo uma mudança
da produção industrial de carne,
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I wanted to believe that this clarion call
was going to make a difference.
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eu queria acreditar
que isso fará diferença.
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The thing is, I've seen this sort of thing
again and again and again for decades.
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Mas vi esse tipo de coisa
repetidas vezes por décadas.
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Here's 2018 from the journal "Nature,"
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Aqui em 2018, na revista "Nature",
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2017 from "Bioscience Journal,"
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em 2017, na "Bioscience Journal",
01:02
2016 from the National
Academy of Sciences.
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em 2016, na Academia Nacional de Ciências.
01:06
The main point of these studies
tends to be climate change.
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O ponto principal desses estudos
tende a ser a mudança climática,
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But antibiotic resistance
represents just as big of a threat.
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mas a resistência aos antibióticos
representa uma ameaça semelhante.
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We are feeding massive doses
of antibiotics to farm animals.
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Administram doses enormes de antibióticos
em animais criados em fazendas.
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These antibiotics are then
mutating into superbugs
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Estes antibióticos estão
se transformando em superbactérias
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that threaten to render
antibiotics obsolete
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que ameaçam torná-los obsoletos
01:25
within all of our lifetimes.
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num curto espaço de tempo.
01:27
You want a scare?
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Vocês querem se assustar?
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Google: "the end of working antibiotics."
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Vejam no Google: "o fim dos antibióticos".
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I'm going to get one thing out of the way:
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Vou esclarecer uma coisa:
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I am not here to tell anybody what to eat.
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não estou aqui para dizer
a ninguém o que comer.
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Individual action is great,
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A ação individual é ótima,
01:39
but antibiotic resistance
and climate change --
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mas resistência a antibióticos
e mudanças climáticas exigem mais.
01:42
they require more.
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01:44
Besides, convincing the world
to eat less meat hasn't worked.
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Além disso, convencer o mundo a comer
menos carne não tem dado muito certo.
01:48
For 50 years, environmentalists,
global health experts and animal activists
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Há 50 anos, ambientalistas, especialistas
em saúde global e defensores dos animais
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have been begging the public
to eat less meat.
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têm implorado ao público
para que coma menos carne.
01:57
And yet, per capita meat consumption
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No entanto, o consumo de carne per capita
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is as high as it's been
in recorded history.
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é o mais alto na história documentada.
02:03
The average North American last year
ate more than 200 pounds of meat.
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O norte-americano médio comeu
mais de 90 quilos de carne no ano passado.
02:07
And I didn't eat any.
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E eu não comi nenhuma.
02:09
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
02:10
Which means somebody out there
ate 400 pounds of meat.
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O que significa que alguém por aí
comeu 180 quilos de carne.
(Risos)
02:13
(Laughter)
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02:15
On our current trajectory,
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Na nossa trajetória atual,
02:17
we're going to need to be producing
70 to 100 percent more meat by 2050.
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vamos precisar produzir
70 a 100% mais carne até 2050.
02:22
This requires a global solution.
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Isso requer uma solução global.
02:25
What we need to do is we need to produce
the meat that people love,
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Precisamos produzir a carne
que as pessoas amam,
02:29
but we need to produce it
in a whole new way.
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mas de uma maneira totalmente nova.
02:32
I've got a couple of ideas.
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Eu tenho algumas ideias.
02:34
Idea number one:
let's grow meat from plants.
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Ideia número um:
vamos cultivar carne de plantas.
02:37
Instead of growing plants,
feeding them to animals,
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Em vez de cultivar plantas
para os animais,
e toda essa ineficiência,
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and all of that inefficiency,
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let's grow those plants,
let's biomimic meat with them,
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vamos cultivar as plantas, transformá-las
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let's make plant-based meat.
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e fazer carne à base delas.
02:46
Idea number two: for actual animal meat,
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Ideia número dois:
para uma carne animal real,
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let's grow it directly from cells.
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vamos cultivá-la diretamente das células.
02:52
Instead of growing live animals,
let's grow the cells directly.
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Em vez de criar animais vivos,
vamos cultivar as células diretamente.
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It takes six weeks to grow
a chicken to slaughter weight.
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Leva seis semanas para uma galinha
atingir o peso de abate.
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Grow the cells directly,
you can get that same growth
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Cultivando as células diretamente, podemos
obter esse mesmo crescimento em seis dias.
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in six days.
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This is what that looks like at scale.
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É assim que se parece em escala.
03:07
It's your friendly
neighborhood meat brewery.
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É como uma amigável
destilaria de carnes do bairro.
03:09
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
03:12
I want to make two points about this.
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Quero destacar dois pontos.
O primeiro é: acreditamos
que podemos fazer isso.
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The first one is, we believe we can do it.
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03:16
In recent years, some companies
have been producing meat from plants
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Nos últimos anos, algumas empresas
têm produzido carne de plantas
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that consumers cannot distinguish
from actual animal meat,
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que os consumidores não conseguem
distinguir da carne animal real,
03:24
and there are now dozens of companies
growing actual animal meat
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e agora existem dezenas de empresas
que cultivam carne animal real
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directly from cells.
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diretamente das células.
03:30
This plant-based and cell-based meat
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Esta carne à base de vegetais e de células
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gives consumers everything
that they love about meat --
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dá aos consumidores tudo o que eles amam:
o gosto, a textura e assim por diante,
03:35
the taste, the texture and so on --
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but with no need for antibiotics
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mas sem necessidade de antibióticos
03:39
and with a fraction of the adverse
impact on the climate.
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e com uma fração
do impacto negativo no clima.
03:43
And because these two technologies
are so much more efficient,
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E porque essas duas tecnologias
são muito mais eficientes,
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at production scale
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na produção em escala
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these products will be cheaper.
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esses produtos serão mais baratos.
03:50
But one quick point about that --
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Mas um ponto rápido sobre isso:
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it's not going to be easy.
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não vai ser fácil.
03:54
These plant-based companies have spent
small fortunes on their burgers,
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Essas empresas de plantas gastaram
pequenas fortunas em seus hambúrgueres
03:58
and cell-based meat has not yet
been commercialized at all.
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e a carne baseada em células
ainda não está sendo comercializada.
04:02
So we're going to need all hands on deck
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Então, vamos precisar
que todos se empenhem
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to make these the global meat industry.
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para torná-las
a indústria global de carne.
04:07
For starters, we need
the present meat industry.
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Para começar, precisamos
da atual indústria da carne.
04:11
We don't want to disrupt
the meat industry,
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Não queremos prejudicá-la,
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we want to transform it.
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nós queremos transformá-la.
04:15
We need their economies of scale,
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Precisamos das economias de escala,
04:17
their global supply chain,
their marketing expertise
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da cadeia de suprimentos global,
experiência em marketing
04:20
and their massive consumer base.
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e da enorme base de consumidores dela.
04:22
We also need governments.
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Nós também precisamos dos governos.
04:24
Governments spend tens of billions
of dollars every single year
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Eles gastam dezenas de bilhões
de dólares todos os anos
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on research and development
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em pesquisa e desenvolvimento
04:30
focused on global health
and the environment.
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focado na saúde global e no meio ambiente.
04:33
They should be putting some of that money
into optimizing and perfecting
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Eles deveriam investir um pouco
desse dinheiro para otimizar e aperfeiçoar
04:36
the production of plant-based
and cell-based meat.
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a produção de carne
à base de plantas e de células.
04:41
Look, tens of thousands of people
died from antibiotic-resistant superbugs
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Superbactérias resistentes a antibióticos
mataram dezenas de milhares de pessoas
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in North America just last year.
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na América do Norte apenas no ano passado.
04:50
By 2050, that number is going to be
10 million per year globally.
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Até 2050, esse número será
de 10 milhões por ano no mundo.
04:56
And climate change represents
an existential threat
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E as mudanças climáticas
representam uma ameaça existencial
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to huge portions of our global family,
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para grandes parcelas
de nossa família global,
05:03
including some of the poorest people
on the face of the planet.
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incluindo algumas das pessoas
mais pobres na face da Terra.
05:07
Climate change, antibiotic resistance --
these are global emergencies.
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Mudança climática e resistência
aos antibióticos são crises globais.
05:12
Meat production is exacerbating
these emergencies on a global scale.
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A produção de carne está agravando
essas crises em escala mundial.
05:17
But we are not going
to decrease meat consumption
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Mas não vamos diminuir o consumo de carne
05:20
unless we give consumers alternatives
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se não oferecermos
alternativas aos consumidores
05:22
that cost the same or less
and that taste the same or better.
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que custem o mesmo ou menos
e que tenham o mesmo sabor ou melhor.
05:27
We have the solution.
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Nós temos a solução.
05:29
Let's make meat from plants.
Let's grow it directly from cells.
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Vamos fazer carne de plantas.
Vamos cultivá-la diretamente das células.
05:33
It's past time that we mobilize
the resources that are necessary
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Já passou da hora de mobilizamos
os recursos necessários
05:37
to create the next global
agricultural revolution.
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para a próxima revolução agrícola global.
05:42
Thank you.
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Obrigado.
05:43
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bruce Friedrich - Food innovator
TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich plans to compete with the meat industry on its own terms -- by creating alternatives to conventional meat that taste the same or better and cost less.

Why you should listen

Bruce Friedrich is cofounder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), an international nonprofit that is fostering a sustainable, healthy and just agricultural system through food innovation. With branches in the United States, India, Israel, Brazil, Europe and Asia Pacific, GFI is accelerating the production of plant-based and cell-based meat, eggs and dairy in order to bolster the global protein supply while protecting our environment, promoting global health and preventing food insecurity and animal cruelty. Friedrich has penned op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Wired and many other publications. He has appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Friedrich has coauthored two books, contributed chapters to seven more, and has written seven law review articles. Watch his TEDxSonoma talk here.

Friedrich graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center and holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.

More profile about the speaker
Bruce Friedrich | Speaker | TED.com

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