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World Service,30 Jul 2019,53 mins

Demand grows for plant-based food that looks like meat

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Shares in Beyond Meat have fallen, despite rising demand, after it spooked investors with a plan to sell more shares. Frances Walsh, who writes a blog called The Honest Project, in Ireland, gives us her view on the trend of more consumers turning against meat. United Airlines has bought a stake in Clear, a company that uses biometrics to speed passengers through airports. Mike Boyd, an aviation analyst in Evergreen, Colorado, tells us it will be a selling point for the airline, but it's not a way to get through security any quicker. Throughout the programme we'll hear from Erin Delmore, a journalist in New York and Eleanor Jones in Singapore, a technology consultant and founder of Skintelligent. We also analyse the future challenges facing the world's television broadcasters, as cable subscriptions fall in favour of streaming. Will broadcasting over the internet, video streaming services kill traditional television? (Picture: Beyond Meat plant based patties. Getty Images.)

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