As a life-long and generational Berkeley resident, the recent rumors surrounding this company and its founders paint an entirely different narrative then presented in this film.
Originally we thought this would be about 'clean' meat and how the technology will usher in a new era of global and consumer enlightenment. We would meet the future farmers, butchers, and chefs of the world and hear their great technological advancements.
Directly addressing climate concerns we champion here in the Bay Area is the noblest goal for a company trying to feed us for the foreseeable future... with the added benefit of saving countless innocent critters.
Fast forward to today, multiple rumors of gender based harassment by the now non- existent co founder Dr. Nicolas Genovese (including one of the young, empowering females scientists in this film) and Human Resources cover ups aplenty? A German scientist being recorded as saying the pilot plant he built is completely fake $50million dollar farce but he 'had to go along with it because he would lose his visa?'
There's a clearly amazing story here- but it's a sad one and it was ignored by this filmmaker in lieu of this ode to a failed surgeon and medical device company founder.
It brings amazement to all of us that this took as long as it did to be made and contains nothing of substance.
Originally we thought this would be about 'clean' meat and how the technology will usher in a new era of global and consumer enlightenment. We would meet the future farmers, butchers, and chefs of the world and hear their great technological advancements.
Directly addressing climate concerns we champion here in the Bay Area is the noblest goal for a company trying to feed us for the foreseeable future... with the added benefit of saving countless innocent critters.
Fast forward to today, multiple rumors of gender based harassment by the now non- existent co founder Dr. Nicolas Genovese (including one of the young, empowering females scientists in this film) and Human Resources cover ups aplenty? A German scientist being recorded as saying the pilot plant he built is completely fake $50million dollar farce but he 'had to go along with it because he would lose his visa?'
There's a clearly amazing story here- but it's a sad one and it was ignored by this filmmaker in lieu of this ode to a failed surgeon and medical device company founder.
It brings amazement to all of us that this took as long as it did to be made and contains nothing of substance.