{"id":246738,"date":"2026-11-06T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/jenny-kleeman-on-sex-robots-and-vegan-meat"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:07:44","slug":"jenny-kleeman-on-sex-robots-and-vegan-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/jenny-kleeman-on-sex-robots-and-vegan-meat","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Kleeman on Sex Robots and Vegan Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/879852367-singularity1on1-jenny-kleeman.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Six years ago I sat down with investigative journalist Jenny Kleeman to talk about birth, food, sex and death. In other words, the entire human condition.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, parts of our conversation sounded like science fiction. A 3D-printable suicide pod. Lamb fetuses growing in plastic bags. Robots designed to be loved.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Sarco pod has been used in Switzerland. Several US states have banned #LabGrownMeat. Millions of people now have #AI companions. And #ArtificialWombs are edging closer to human trials.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny didn\u2019t report on these frontiers from a conference stage. She went and met the people building them. What she found was stranger and more human than any pitch deck promises.<\/p>\n<p>Is a sex robot a cure for loneliness or a business model built on it? Is vegan meat about saving the planet or selling us absolution? And who gets to define a \u201cperfect death\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t spoil her answers. But one line from our conversation has stayed with me ever since:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/jenny-kleeman-on-sex-robots-and-vegan-meat\">Continue reading \u201cJenny Kleeman on Sex Robots and Vegan Meat\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago I sat down with investigative journalist Jenny Kleeman to talk about birth, food, sex and death. In other words, the entire human condition. Back then, parts of our conversation sounded like science fiction. A 3D-printable suicide pod. Lamb fetuses growing in plastic bags. Robots designed to be loved. Since then, the Sarco [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}