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Dairy is like Diamonds - lab-grown won't replace the real thing with Amos Palfreyman

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:25:37
Publish Date: 2020-02-17 03:00:17
Description:

A major ‘uncertain’ facing New Zealand dairy & red meat sectors is the exponential change of cellular agriculture & plant-based meat and milk with huge investment being piled into it by Silicon Valley investors & Hollywood directors.

This week's Farmers Weekly pulpit - a place for people to have their educated opinions on the hottest issues in agribusiness - is written by Amos Palfreyman spent three months at Foodvalley in Wageningen, Netherlands, analysing the alternative protein sector. Foodvalley is the primary knowledge-intensive agrifood ecosystem in the Netherlands.  

Amos is the business development for FoodHQ which is the food science/innovation hub funded by Massey, AgResearch, Fonterra, Plant and Food among others and joins Sarah in this extended episode on the topic where he states that Dairy & Diamonds are forever.

Visit www.farmersweekly.co.nz to read his opinion piece.

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