Future of Food

Does anyone edit the script for the voiceover? On a series which necessarily is heavy on science, to utter the idiocy, when referring to freezing something or other, that the temperature is "as cold as it gets on the dark side of the moon, the side that never sees the sun." There is no (permanently) dark side of the moon. Every part of the moon gets one month's worth of sunlight. Perhaps the narrator (or script writer) was thinking of the far side of the moon, the side that is alway facing away from earth. Why was the temperature of liquid nitrogen compared to the "dark side of the moon?" Someone thought he (or she) was making a clever analogy and put his foot into his mouth. That mistake ruined the series for me. To me, the narrator might as well have mentioned that the earth is flat and beyond the edge there be dragons. I know, one little mistake... but it was a big one, and probably, in passing, confirmed to many people their casual mistaken belief in the "dark side of the moon." Instead of advancing science, they added to the BS. So, sadly, I will not watch more of this series.

"How safe is it to eat?

"(Cultured beef) is as safe as regular beef. If you produced the tissue and you end up with the same tissue as beef, there's no reason to assume that its going to be unsafe. So you can just start to let people eat it."

So many qualifiers. This TV series was produced before Covid and its vaccines and Big Pharma's exaggerated unproven claims and the actual adverse drug reactions.

The beef is produced from stem cells from cattle in a lab. There is no actual digestive tract, or liver or kidneys. It doesn't graze like cattle do. How can it be the same?

Throughout the program a young hip attractive narrator says: Scientists say or Critics say, and then makes some unsupported claim. A casual viewer might think: So it must be so, and does not think: There's an unsupported claim. If he hears it often enough he'll believe it, propagandists say. But must it be so? Because of what the narrator looks like? Because he smiles and looks straight into the camera?

The episode ends with the closing argument and a smile: "No animal laid waste to a pasture. It sounds like a win-win."

Another half-truth and another qualifier.