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Holland Factory 3D Printing 500 Tons Of Steak Per Month
A factory in Holland eschews the vat meat method, preferring to 3D print their steaks.
Redefine Meat’s factory in Holland utilizes additive manufacturing technology to create plant-based meat products. Unlike conventional 3D printing, which is commonly used for plastics, Redefine Meat has developed a version specifically for creating meat. The process, referred to as additive manufacturing, uses large-scale industrial production machines and food-grade ingredients to create meat products with the right texture, flavor, and mouthfeel. This sets it apart from traditional 3D printing, as it goes beyond shape and focuses on replicating the qualities of real meat.Their “meat” is, of course, not actually meat at all. It is a plant-based alternative that looks, tastes, and feels like, just with no actual animal involvement. The product itself is made of pea and soy protein, chickpeas, beetroot, nutritional yeast, and coconut fat. Each product is made of the same ingredients, just done in a different way so that it resembles the real thing.
Redefine Meat’s New-Meat range offers a diverse selection of plant-based meat alternatives, including beef and lamb flank cuts, ground beef, sausages, premium burgers, and lamb kebabs. Recently, Redefine Meat announced a major product expansion, introducing two new premium cuts, Redefine Tenderloin and Redefine Striploin, as well as a range of pulled meat alternatives, including Pulled Beef, Pulled Lamb, and Pulled Pork.
(Via TheHeartySoul.)
In her 1955 short story Lazarus, science fiction author Margaret St. Clair describes why you might have second thoughts about Synthimeat and even clever marketing names like Juiciveal:
"...There was some talk then to the effect that it was wrong to create life artificially. But we’ve come in for much favorable publicity since then, a lot of it from humanitarian-minded people, and of course it’s well known that the synthimeat industry is supplying over seventy percent of the protein requirements of the armed forces. Nobody could oppose that. Why, there were twQ bishops present when Juicimeet laid the corner stone for its newest plant.”They had arrived before the big, rubber flanged double doors of the vat room. “Please try not to cough or sneeze,” Mr. Fremden cautioned them. “The culture infects very easily at this stage. We used to take groups of school children through, but we had to stop it when we lost two consecutive batches of Juicimeet. It’s so difficult to make children be careful and clean.”
('Lazarus' by Margaret St. Clair)
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