In a piece titled Fifty Years Hence in 1931, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote, "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." He might have not been alive to see the first lab-grown burger that was made at a news conference in London in 2013, but he did predict the cell-based meat revolution. But revolutions don't start overnight, and that's what a new podcast on the IVM Podcasts aims to convey.

Feeding 10 Billion is a 10-part series by Varun Deshpande and Ramya Ramamurthy of the Good Food Institute — a US-based non-profit that works towards accelerating the growth of plant-based meat and clean meat. The podcast, two episodes of which are already out, conveys the urgency of rethinking our food systems in order to feed all the 10 billion people in the world by 2050. The fallout of our existing animal-rearing system has been spoken about at length in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and the paucity of resources. So, Deshpande and Ramamurthy focus on the solutions.