00:03Coffee is important to many and a way of life for some, but traditional coffee farming isn't
00:09that sustainable. And as global warming continues to worsen, coffee as we know it may become rarer
00:14and rarer. Which is why these scientists from the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
00:18are looking for newer, more sustainable ways to keep that caffeinated lifeblood dripping
00:22into your pot. Like this, coffee grown in a lab. Here's Heiko Reischer, lead researcher
00:28on the project to explain. We propose an alternative process here. We skip the farming part and
00:36we use plant cell cultures instead. So actually real coffee cell cultures, but they are not
00:43generated in the field, but instead we are growing them in bioreactors. They say their long-term
00:49goal is to replace coffee agriculture altogether, as this process is more sustainable and future-proof,
00:55involving less pesticides and fertilizer and less transportation, as coffee could be cultured
01:00locally as opposed to grown in tropical climates only. So how does it taste? They say it's like
01:04a variety of coffees at once. Adding it quote, resembles coffee at the moment, but is not
01:09yet ready for commercial manufacturing.
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