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Japan’s Next Meal?
Can cultured meat and fermenting fungus help provide our food of the future?
What will the food of the future taste like? In Japan, we discover a fungus turning waste into a high-protein alternative to meat. Then we visit a bedroom where amateur scientists are growing chicken cells. And a restaurant with its very own cultured-meat laboratory upstairs. Could these ideas eventually change the way Japan - and the world - eats food?
Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporter/producer: Craig Langran
Editor: Jon Bithrey
Sound mix: Andrew Mills
Sound producer: Juan Ricardo Duenas
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