Startup companies are racing to find alternatives to livestock and what we eat, according to The Guardian Monday.
Startups want to change the food industry by providing alternatives to meat and dairy products, The Guardian reported. Startups are trying to find cleaner, healthier and more environmentally friendly products by making the food in a lab.
Innovative companies use lab-based methods to cultivate and create new alternatives to the meat industry. One startup, Impossible Foods, created the Impossible burger, which tastes and looks like a burger. However, it is actually made from the roots of a soy plant. Scientists extract DNA from the hemeprotein in the genetically modified yeast then brew it. They then remove the genetically modified material, leaving a burger without the genetically modified soy ingredients.
Memphis Meats startup is trying to make “clean meat” from not using any antibiotics, by growing beef, chicken and duck meat in a lab. Israeli startup Aleph Farms describes itself as a leader of cellular agriculture by extracting cells from animals, replicating it in a lab, and creating meat from it. The concept of “clean meat” also might relaunch the currently illegal French delicacy, foie gras paté, by the end of 2018.
“We very much recognise that the world loves meat and eating it is deeply culturally ingrained. We are not activists. We just want to make meat that is better,” Memphis Meats Vice President Steve Myrick said.
Startups are also trying to reinvent the use of dairy products through lab-tested products. One entity, Just, created scrambled eggs from a Mung bean plant. Another startup, Clara Foods, is currently working on making egg whites in a lab, which are expected to go on sale in 2019.
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