A North Carolina startup found a way to grow real leather from cow cells in a lab, a sustainable breakthrough that could cut emissions and eliminate slaughter in the $400 billion leather industry.
It was an interesting and well made video, except for his insistence that leather’s structure is “intelligent”, when it’s actually evolutionarily refined over millions of years natural selection. He also went on to say that human engineers would have to be gods to mimic it. Granted this article hadn’t been published yet, and ironically the little leather key wrap he’s hawking at the end of the video looks like a great candidate for this lab grown leather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuRUcAGIEU
A short science rich explanation of why it’s unbeatable while being dragged behind a motorcycle.
Hahaha, i’m not sure I ever plan on being dragged behind a motorcycle, however… This is good information to have thank you
It was an interesting and well made video, except for his insistence that leather’s structure is “intelligent”, when it’s actually evolutionarily refined over millions of years natural selection. He also went on to say that human engineers would have to be gods to mimic it. Granted this article hadn’t been published yet, and ironically the little leather key wrap he’s hawking at the end of the video looks like a great candidate for this lab grown leather.