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Im convinced we need plant-based alternatives to animal products, but I suspect alt-protein companies sometimes get a little too caught up in how these meats are madeFiber-spinning!.
Plant-based meats need to be more than just buzz, says Arik Kaufman, CEO of Steakholder Foods, the Israeli company that sent me the 3D-printed meat..
Kauffman says that the combination of his 3D printers and the mixes of water, soy and pea protein, oil, and other ingredients used to print the steaks nets out as cost-competitive to other plant-based products..
The danger when companies reduce plant-based-meats down to purely technological challenges is that they forget that food must first delight us..
The company has just signed an agreement to provide non-3D-printed, plant-based meats to an Israeli company that supplies hotels and the military, Kaufman says...
