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	Podcast:		Ideas
	Episode:		What if your favourite food became extinct?
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:08
	Publish Date:		2026-03-09 21:10:00
	Description:		It is possible. Flavours have been lost to the past, as culinary physicist Lenore Newman explains. She points to the extinction of the passenger pigeon — a species numbering in the billions throughout North America — as an example. In 1914, Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati zoo — and in place of the pigeon, came the industrialized farming of chicken. Newman says we're now transitioning to lab-raised food — a technology capable of pushing a global history of scarcity into one of abundance, all the while easing land usage. She calls it the "food singularity."
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