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3D-printed fake meat: The healthier, greener future of food?

FRANCE 24

1 hour ago

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Israeli firm Redefine Meat is using 3D printing technology to produce plant-based steaks designed to mimic real meat and plans to start selling them in restaurants later this year. With a handful of other firms working on similar technology, could 3D-printed meat soon provide a healthier and greener alternative to the real thing?

The process used by Redefine sees protein taken from plants that are then built up in layers by a 3D printer to produce an entirely plant-based steak.

"We analyse the different components that make those beautiful cuts and try to figure out which are the key components that we need to mimic in order to achieve those beautiful cuts of meat,” Redefine Meat food engineer Alexey Tomsov told Reuters.

“We identified three main components: the muscle, the blood and the fat. These are the components that we need to mimic on order to reach the perfect, beautiful steak."

In Spain, a company called Novameat has begun producing its own version of a plant-based 3D-printed steak and also makes a pork-style product.

Meanwhile, another Israeli company, MeaTech 3D, is using lab-grown meat in its 3D-printed steaks.

These companies say their products are not only healthier, as they are lower in cholesterol, but also much better for the environment than meat produced by farming, which has been highlighted by the UN as a major contributor to climate change,

in part through the methane emitted by cattle.

“Our technology can create whole-muscle cuts just as a cow can produce that but in a much more efficient way, with a lower cost and, of course, it's much better for the environment,” Redefine Meat CEO Eshchar Ben-******rit told Reuters.

More:  msn.com/en-gb/money/other/3d-printed-fake-meat-the-healthier-greener-future-of-food/ar-BB16dC50

[Goldengate8361]

Make no mistake: This is NOT healthier than the real thing. Beef is not at all bad for you. Period.

[Mz iMac]

[Cakers3]

I'm all for the environment but fake food is a turn-off on many levels.

I'd rather stick to other real and healthy food options that eat a fake burger hot off the press.  Literally.

[GenXmuse]

I don't have a problem if people want to eat it. It's probably better for the cows. 

[Porcelain]

It looks like a sweater. Just make faux ground beef.

I am all in favor of replacing meat. As long as it's with something that tastes really good and is not extremely unhealthy. If we stopped kilingl all those animals on such a huge scale it would just be better all around. Make genuine meat a specialty item, more like truffles.

[Twoaces]

I agree, Porcelain.  Our planet and livestock will benefit from the switch to viewing a meat entree as something special to have once in awhile.  I haven’t eaten meat for about a year, but I do miss a good burger once in awhile.  Believe it or not, the Impossible burgers and Beyond burgers are extremely satisfying, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out.  Infact, a friend who is very strictly vegetarian thought that a local restaurant had served her beef in a burger, but it was really the Impossible burger.  Impossible to tell the difference!

I admit that the picture at the start of this post was pretty gross!  I would feel like I was eating play-do if it came in that form!!

[JYWilliams]

Ewww

[KaySD]

Quelle horreur!

[Mindy D]

I looks like some creation by Dr. Frankenstein or by a four-year-old playing with a Play Doh Fun Factory.