Episode 274 - Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton

Matt's on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton (@newton_pete) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren't all they're cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia, safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins, anaconda attacks in the field, the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole country's behavior, and whether you'd eat lab-grown meat.

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Episode 274 - Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton

Dec 26, 2017

Matt’s on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old
university friend Dr. Pete Newton (@newton_pete) who's now an assistant professor at
the University of Colorado, Boulder
to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren’t all they’re
cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia,
safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins, anaconda attacks in the field,
the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole
country’s behavior, and whether you’d eat lab-grown meat.

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