The future of high-tech meat substitutes

Fox ^ | 1/27/14 | Hannah Sentenac

[workerbee]

Today's average American hamburger comes from a cow – but it may not be long before it comes straight from a lab in Silicon Valley.

A growing number of companies are using high tech to create meat and animal product replacements that look like the real thing – but are made with anything but.

And their target market isn’t vegans -- it’s true blue carnivores.

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The process itself is high tech. “We’re taking proteins and running them through a heating, cooling and pressure process that realigns them so that they substantially mimic the fiber structure that you find in animal flesh or meat,” Brown says.

“The outcome for the consumer is that it tears like meat, it has the same grams of force required to rupture and it has the overall mouthfeel of muscle,” he said.

[Jonty30]

From the pictures I’ve seen, it looks nothing like meat.

[gorush]

Watch for, and stay away from, Malorginite...also known as soylent brown. (It is a fertilizer manufactured in Milwaukee, WI from sewage)

[workerbee]

Ping for your interest.

[shibumi]

Chinese Communist Vegetarian Ham

(Yum!)

[VTenigma]

If they didn’t want us to eat cows, why did they make them out of meat? /s

[NautiNurse]

We’ve evolved from meat-eating cigarette smokers to manufactured protein derivative pot tokers. I guess if you are high enough, one will eat most anything to quell the munchies.

[Ray76]

Real Beef

It's what's for dinner.

[nascarnation]

Looks like the Chinese have all bases covered on that one!

[Irenic]

Chicken flavored ... vegetarian ham ...alrighty then....

[workerbee]

The next-gen companies are trying battle these images by focusing on recreating classic recipes that appeal to meat-eaters, from beefless sliders to buffalo wings to chicken-free strips. “Products in this category are not just appealing to vegetarians and those who don’t eat meat. Consumers who are meat eaters are becoming more interested,” says Mintel analyst Bloom.

I have no interest in fake meat at all, but I have tried and like some veggie burgers. Not as a substitute for a decent grilled hamburger, just as an alternative. "Expanding my horizons" and all that. And I think it's good for my kids to try new things often.

[editor-surveyor]

Pharmakea is what God’s word calls it.

It is one of the stated reasons why the time of tribulation has to be ‘shortened.’

[workerbee]

That looks and sounds Nasty!

[faithhopecharity]

I already can’t keep big maks down.

[BushCountry]

[workerbee]

You make a very good point! lol

[Gay State Conservative]

Computer hardware and software from Silicon Valley? Fine.But I'll take my prime rib and sirloin from Texas or Florida,thanks very much.

[editor-surveyor]

Is that Kosher?

[restornu]

Thank you

[JimRed]

And the same people who whine about genetically modified vegetables will have something more to whine about!