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Bruce Friedrich
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“We need to change the meat, because we aren’t going to change human nature.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Nathaniel Popper, This Animal Activist Used to Get in Your Face. Now He’s Going After Your Palate., New York Times, March 2019
“To remake meat is how we solve climate change. Remaking meat is how we prevent the next pandemic. Remaking meat is how we take antibiotics out of the food system.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Jonathan Kauffman, Meet the Innovator Behind the Plant-Based Meat Movement, Eating Well Magazine, 2021
“We don't want to disrupt the meat industry, we want to transform it. We need their economies of scale, their global supply chain, their marketing expertise and their massive consumer base.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TED Talk: The next global agricultural revolution, 2019
“Individual action is great, but antibiotic resistance and climate change—they require more. Besides, convincing the world to eat less meat hasn't worked. For 50 years, environmentalists, global health experts and animal activists have been begging the public to eat less meat. And yet, per capita meat consumption is as high as it's been in recorded history.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TED Talk: The next global agricultural revolution, 2019
“What is happening to [animals] on modern farms and in modern slaughterhouses is beyond most of the worst moments of our lives...that's their entire existence.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute, Interview on the Hear This Idea podcast, 2021
“It is a crime against humanity, while people are starving, to funnel massive amounts of crops through animals so we can eat animals when those crops should be feeding human beings.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute, Interview on the Hear This Idea podcast, 2021
“What we need to do is...to produce the meat that people love, but we need to produce it in a whole new way. I've got a couple of ideas. Idea number one: let's grow meat from plants. Instead of growing plants, feeding them to animals, and all of that inefficiency, let's grow those plants, let's biomimic meat with them, let's make plant-based meat. Idea number two: for actual animal meat, let's grow it directly from cells. Instead of growing live animals, let's grow the cells directly. It takes six weeks to grow a chicken to slaughter weight. Grow the cells directly, you can get that same growth in six days.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TED Talk: The next global agricultural revolution, 2019
“30 years ago, about 2% of the population was either vegetarian or vegan. Twenty years ago, about 2% of the population was vegetarian or vegan. Ten years ago, about 2% of the population was vegetarian or vegan. Are you catching a theme? It hasn’t changed in 30 years. So a lot more people claim to be vegetarian or vegan now than claimed to be vegetarian or vegan 20 and 30 years ago. But if you look at the actual numbers, if you look at when you do the polling in the most accurate way and you say, “In the last month, which of these products have you not consumed,” it turns out that about 2% of the population is vegetarian or vegan.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruce Friedrich makes the case that inventing outstanding meat replacements is the most effective way to help animals, Interview on the 80,000 Hours podcast, 2018
“lab grown [meat] is just a misnomer. Lab grown is what the media often times likes to call it. It’s somewhat sensationalist. But lab grown is just wrong. At scale, once this stuff is commercialized, it’s not going to be grown in a lab—it’s going to be grown in essentially a meat brewery. That’s what it’s going to look like. So every processed food starts in a food lab but we don’t say lab grown Cheerios, or lab grown whatever else. It isn’t anymore. It started in a food lab, now it’s in a factory. And the factories for clean meat are going to look like breweries, so we’re calling it clean meat and we’re talking about meat breweries.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruce Friedrich makes the case that inventing outstanding meat replacements is the most effective way to help animals, Interview on the 80,000 Hours podcast, 2018
“Jesus' message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God's creatures. He'd be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh. Catholics, and all Christians, have a choice. When we sit down to eat, we can add to the violence, misery and death in the world, or we can respect God's creatures with a vegetarian diet. I believe we're obligated to make choices that are as merciful as possible, and we can all do that at the dinner table with a vegetarian diet. There won't be any factory farms and slaughterhouses in heaven.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin?, interview by Hank Pellissier, in SFGate.com (2 February 2004)