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Meat Producers Are Concerned Vegan Bacon Is Deceiving Consumers
The meat industry is lobbying to change fake-meat labels, but "vegetarian textured soy breakfast strips" doesn't have quite the same ring.
Meet the UC-Berkeley Professor Who Developed a Course Where Students Create Fake Seafood
Teams of students will compete to create new realistic textures for faux seafood, all in hopes of claiming a $5,000 prize.
The Road to a Post-Meat World Starts in China
The meat industry is an arena of mixed signals thanks to the globally interconnected nature of the business and those who are trying to curtail our dependence on it. And at the center of the meat chatter is China.
This Vegan Ground Beef Burger Sold Out of Whole Foods in an Hour
The plant-based product made its supermarket grand debut yesterday at a branch of Whole Foods in Boulder and sold out in an hour.
Cheap Beer and DIY Kombucha: A Look Back on the Evolution of the Hipster Diet
Eventually, the word “hipster” has somehow come to equate eggs Benedict-loving bitters-drinkers who work at creative agencies and Instagram photos of their avocado toast with face-tatted bike messengers who singlehandedly pound 12-packs.
Tempeh Is the Underdog of the Fake Meat World
If plant proteins can be classified by high school clique, tofu is the jock, seitan the punk, and tempeh the stoner. Tempeh is the more versatile one, the more nutritionally complex one, the more delicious one—but it’s also the weird one.
Amsterdam Scientists Are Making Mushroom Meat Out of Shrimp
At a remote industrial site in Amsterdam-Noord, a team of researchers are working on a unique experiment: creating a sort of mushroom “cheese” out of with shrimp waste—stuff that is normally processed into animal feed or spread on fields.
How-To: Make Prison Style Sweet and Sour Pork With Andy Roy
If you weren't locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison in the early 2000s, then today is the day you are going to learn how to make a prison-style sweet and sour pork. And we've got just the man to give you a tutorial: Andy Roy.
Watching Three People Share a $384,000 Burger Is Surprisingly Boring
As the world’s population hurtles toward an estimated 9 billion by 2050, global food shortages are becoming a very real problem. It’s obvious that the meat industry as we know it is unsustainable, but for the vast majority of us, the prospect of...