Mission 6: Can we engineer our food to be better?
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - according to Professor Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health at the University of Oxford, “we cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet”.To discover how responsible engineering can help grow the food of the future, we’ve asked Agent Somara to get the lowdown on a company creating sushi-grade salmon without growing any fish(?). Meanwhile Agent Clark must use his very best puns to infiltrate a farm using tech to grow food faster with less water, pesticides and fertiliser.PLUS what happens when Grieg Cameron from ‘D’ Brand puts our team through a sustainable snack taste test?If you enjoy the show, why not like, subscribe and tell a friend? For all the missions in this series, visit DesignSpark Mission Responsible  Mission: Responsible is a Why did the Chicken? production for RS DesignSpark.
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