food
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Scientists Urge The World To Plan For Peak Meat
Abandoning meat isn’t easy. Believe me: I ate a beefy-arse bolognese for lunch yesterday and later munched on some chicken wings. Unfortunately, the meat industry is a growing source of carbon pollution, and continuing to let meat consumption grow could eat up a huge chunk of the world’s carbon budget by 2030. So, well, we…
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Could Protein Spun Like Cotton Candy Make Lab-Grown Steak Possible?
Synthetic meat products might come even closer to the texture of slaughtered meats with the help of what are essentially modified cotton candy machines.
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Cooking The New Impossible Burger Makes Me Hungry For Beef
Impossible Foods has started selling its new fake ground beef in American grocery stores. Well, more specifically, you can buy Impossible Burger 2.0 at Gelson’s Market in Southern California, but the company plans an America-wide rollout soon. We got our hands on a couple of bricks of the stuff and cooked up some burgers and…
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MIT Built A Theranos For Plants
The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a “personal food computer” that worked so poorly that demos had to be faked Theranos-style, per a weekend report in Business Insider. Word of the project’s troubles comes as the Media Lab’s attempts to cover up its extensive financial ties to late financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey…