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Leapfrogging avoids sunk infrastructure

Emerging economies, where most future meat demand growth will occur, can leapfrog directly to efficient, cleaner, safer alternative protein production methods because they lack the inertia of sunk assets in industrial animal agriculture infrastructure—much as regions leapfrogged landlines to go straight to cell phones.

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Speaker

Liz Specht

Evidence Quote

this leap frogging concept also speaks to the urgency here you know now the vast majority of the increase in demand for meat and animal protein will come from these emerging economies

Source

244 - Food Climate And Pandemic RiskMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:36:58 AM

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