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Impossible CEO says it can make a meat 'unlike anything that you've had before'
Plant-based meat products are bigger than ever, with the fast-food industry, grocery stores, and upscale restaurants coming on board. A recent Nielsen report found that plant-based meat alternative purchases went up 279.8 percent last week after Americans were instructed to stay home during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based meat products, says its mission is to someday replace the incumbent meat industry entirely, stating that, from a mission standpoint, a sale only has value if it comes at the expense of the sale of an animal-derived product.
But what if plant-based meat wasn't just a substitute for an already-existing marketplace, and instead, it started to make meat that has never existed?
On this week's Vergecast podcast, Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown talks to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about how this impossible meat could be a possibility in the future, even if it doesn't make sense for the company right now.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-04-08
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 25 2020, @01:54PM (1 child)
They will probably perfect "lab-grown" milk and cheese eventually.
Yeah, what's become of "cultured" meat? That's what I'm waiting for, real meat, without the hoof and mouth disease.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @07:21PM
a cow without eyes, ears and no brain.
beyond meat is eye watering expensive, yes?
they should switch to producing the "machinery" to make that "beyond beef" instead, so the finished product doesn't have to be oil-shipped half around the world.
what is thru for electrical solar is also thru for bio-solar: the sun shines everywhere (ofc some places probably still need to oil-energy-ship the ingredients that go into the "beyond beef" machinery from places where the ingredients grow).
tetrapak makes machines to make terapak ... something like that?