3D Printed Vegan Steak Anyone?

[pastafreak]

We must be honoured as it's coming here to the West Country.

https://www.business-live.co.u.....y-23169761

I wonder if they will be giving out free samples in the city centre...?
Will it be appearing on a what's for dinner thread any time soon?

[jennyjoan]

Pasta. Link not working

[Zacs-Master]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/nov/16/3d-printed-steak-taste-test-meat-mimic

[THECORBYLOON]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59335815

[New Judge]

Sounds delightful.

But the usual question arises: why do people who wish not to eat meat want to have their food mimicking meat (complete with a pipette of "blood"). Why don't they just eat something that looks and tastes like processed daffodil bulbs?

[Zacs-Master]

'why do people who wish not to eat meat want to have their food mimicking meat'

I'm not sure it's aimed at them, per se. I think it's intended to make more of 'us' make the change, making us and the planet healthier.

[THECORBYLOON]

"But the usual question arises: why do people who wish not to eat meat want to have their food mimicking meat"

Perhaps it's to avoid animals being reared solely to provide food for human consumption?

Is it not similar to items resembling ivory being developed in order to reduce the slaughter of elephants for their tusks?

[New Judge]

// I think it's intended to make more of 'us' make the change,...//

Where is their evidence that living solely on processed plants makes humans more healthy? I won't go into the argument that humans eating meat allegedly causes more damage "to the planet" than if they survived, somewhat unnaturally, solely on plants. Why don't people with these eccentricities simply mind their own business?

[New Judge]

//Perhaps it's to avoid animals being reared solely to provide food for human consumption?//

Then why make the food resemble animal flesh?

[bobbinwales]

//Why don't people with these eccentricities simply mind their own business?//
I've no idea what that means but it sounds very dismissive of people who either enjoy it now and again like I do, can see some health benefits and prefer to reduce our reliance on breeding animals that cause CO2 problems and then slaughter them

[THECORBYLOON]

Perhaps they have been meat-eaters in the past and want to have that experience again?

Would you rather have the real thing or a few tablets and a bit paste that gave you exactly the same nutritional benefits?

[Mamyalynne]

//3D printed meat also consumes far less of our increasingly scarce resources. Growing the materials for 3D printing meat require drastically less water, land area, and energy usage, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.//

https://www.3dsourced.com/feature-stories/3d-printed-meat-future-of-cuisine/#:~:text=More%20sustainable%2C%20ethical%2C%20and%20environmentally%20friendly&text=Growing%20the%20materials%20for%203D,usage%2C%20reducing%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions.

[Mamyalynne]

Apologies for the unwieldy link.

[dannyk13]

If everybody stops eating meat then what happens to all the animals on animal farms?

[bobbinwales]

I dont think its going to stop overnight danny, just maybe fall by a few % each year, this plant based meats already here and this is just another twist that may encourage some ... i'll try it

[jno]

they die of old age rather than being butcherred?

[237SJ]

They won`t die of old age - they`ll be slaughtered anyway.

[New Judge]

//...but it sounds very dismissive of people who either enjoy it now and again like I do,//

I'm not dismissive of them for what they eat, bob. I don't give a toss what they eat. I'm dismissive of them for seemingly wanting me to do the same (see Zacs' post). But I simply cannot fathom why they go to great lengths to make this stuff look and taste like meat. I perfectly understand people who don't want to eat meat. It's not a lifestyle I have any intention of undertaking or even trying but each to their own. But if you ran a campaign to persuade people to eat fewer vegetables, why would it help to produce a piece of lamb that looked at tasted like a carrot? It's simply irrational.

//Perhaps they have been meat-eaters in the past and want to have that experience again?//

Then they can buy a piece of meat, no?

//Would you rather have the real thing or a few tablets and a bit paste that gave you exactly the same nutritional benefits?//

The real thing. A strange question!

[bobbinwales]

Is a choice not compulsory... surely you like the freedom to choose... some might choose it, you and many others might not. If there's no demand it'll not become widely available... if there is demand then good for them and those that want it

[Arksided]

No blood I'd wither away, a no from me straight away.

I too don't understand Vegans etc... wanting to mimic meat?

[bobbinwales]

I drink oat milk in coffee and on cereal cos I like it but i wouldn't be as keen if it looked sort of blue or green and nothing like milk