Uma Valeti, MD
@UmaValeti
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CEO and Founder, UPSIDE Foods
Joined January 2012
7 years of team work 👬👭👫🧑🤝🧑 7 hours of filming 🎥🎬📽️ 7 great minutes on national prime time today @CBSSunday 😁📺 Thank you for sharing this. 🙏 Lots more to do as we look ahead @UPSIDEfoods
Cardiologist Dr. @UmaValeti set out to use stem cells to re-grow heart muscle, to help heart attack patients, when he discovered a way to “grow” meat directly from animal cells without having to slaughter animals. https://t.co/QgfyuZzC2A
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Instead of raising animals in conventional ways, UPSIDE keeps a master cell bank: a collection of high-quality animal cells that can be stored, thawed, and used to grow meat whenever needed. That means less waste, less mess, and more food for more people.
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yeah! 100 billion lives a year - protect them and keep our choices alive! Thanks for sharing this @JeffNippard 🐥🐓🐄 🐷🥓🍔🍗
I’m eating lab grown meat the second it’s mass market ready. It’s biologically identical to animal meat and will reduce suffering more than any technology in the history of our planet as long as enough people switch over from factory farmed meats.
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Yes x 100Billion life’s every year @DrewSav
Opposition to lab grown meat is just mindless hysteria. If we can recreate the taste and texture of meat without any of the associated negatives, people should be happy. If we no longer have to raise and slaughter billions of animals a year that would be great for our planet.
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@GovGianforte If your meats so good then surely you’re not scared of competition
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@GovGianforte „Way of life“ = slaughtering living beings instead of growing it in the lab without killing anything Great way of life mate
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They are just afraid of a little competition!
How is this remotely consistent with the decades-long claim of conservatives that they believe in the free market? If people want to purchase and consume lab-grown meat -- for health or ethical or any reason -- why should the state bar them from doing so?
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Fuck crony capitalism, fuck it all to hell
Florida, Alabama, and now Montana have all pointlessly banned lab-grown meat. I know a lab-grown meat startup that had to move from Florida after their ban, and now they're just back in California. They avoided Texas because of the risk of them banning the stuff, too.
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If Montana beef is the best…why spend millions of dollars banning Cultivated Meat that requires NO killing and is a TRUE American Innovation? Compete as TRUE cowboys would, don’t be afraid of a little competition!!! 🐮 @GovGianforte @UPSIDEfoods
So-called "lab-grown meat" has no place in Montana. By signing HB 401 into law, I am proud to defend our way of life and the hardworking Montana ranchers who produce the best beef in the world.
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Well said
One of the most egregious examples of paid-for politicians forcibly holding back a wildly beneficial technology to protect corporate interests. It is an affront to freedom, stripping citizens of the option to spare animals and the environment in their meat consumption.
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I met with the Honorable Governor Pillen of Nebraska recently. While the push to ban cultivated meat in Nebraska came without initial dialogue, I appreciate his willingness to now engage. @TeamPillen @NeDeptAg We had a productive conversation—and I look forward to working with
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Innovation. Choice. Domestic manufacturing. They’re good for everyone — including the meat industry. I ran a poll on X, and another on LinkedIn. Different platforms, different political leanings, different people. Same result. People across the spectrum believe in protecting
1-second poll👇 Repost/engage irrespective of political affiliation. Should your government decide what you eat?
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1-second poll👇 Repost/engage irrespective of political affiliation. Should your government decide what you eat?
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America is a where our constitution clearly states the govt is by and for the people 🇺🇸
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Cultivated meat is on the rise — here's how it is made
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Lab-grown food is being hailed by proponents as the answer to some of the negative aspects that come along with modern agriculture and food production. But how does it work, and what are the pros and...
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A direct conversation on … What’s the future of food? A chef and a cardiologist answer (Jon Kung and Uma Valeti | TED Intersections) https://t.co/qSvKehPyia via @TEDTalks @UPSIDEfoods @ChefJonKung
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What does food mean to you, your community and our planet? With personal accounts from the kitchen to the operating room, chef and content creator Jon Kung and cardiologist Uma Valeti unpack how...
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Had a great chat with @richroll for the @RichRollPodcast. It was amazing to see him taste @UPSIDEfoods chicken - his FIRST bite of chicken after 17 years! We explore meaty topics on cultivated meat and the future of food. Check it out here 👉🏽
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We made history in Florida by hosting about a 100 people on a Miami rooftop to celebrate the joy of food freedom. It was the first time cultivated meat was available to the general public for free and we’re thrilled to have given Floridians a taste. There were long lines despite
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The way we raise animals is destructive to humans, animals and the environment, says cardiologist and entrepreneur @UmaValeti of @UPSIDEfoods. He presents a solution: cultivated meat, grown directly from animal cells. Listen here via @TEDTalks:
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The way we raise animals is destructive to humans, animals and the environment, says cardiologist and entrepreneur Uma Valeti. He presents a solution that doesn't require you to give up your favorite...
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