For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It
19 March 2012
Turtle Island Foods founder Seth Tibbott examines freshly-made Tofurky Italian sausages
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Some people in the Netherlands are spending three hundred thirty thousand dollars on a hamburger. The people are scientists at the University of Maastricht. They want to prove that they can make a hamburger that tastes good and does not require an animal to be killed.
Researcher Mark Post and his team have been growing muscle-tissue cells in a laboratory with muscle taken from a cow.
MARK POST: "We have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of these small tissues and then assemble them into a hamburger."
Several teams around the world are trying to produce meat without killing animals. So far the Dutch team appears to have made the most progress.
Mr. Post says he wants to show that the world's growing demand for meat could be satisfied more efficiently and with less harm to the environment.
MARK POST: "It's a combination of the two things, care for environment and food production for the world. And second is just a generic interest in life-transforming technologies."
Seth Tibbott is the founder of Turtle Island Foods in Hood River, Oregon.
SETH TIBBOTT: "This is some of our flagship product, the Tofurky roast, being made, where the stuffing is inside and the ... "
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