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A Start-up Has Invented Veggie Burgers That ‘Bleed’
A biochemist named Patrick Brown has come up with yet another alternative strategy to produce entirely meatless hamburgers that look and taste very much like meat. That's one above, looking sufficiently burgerlike; it's even got that pristine medium-rare thing going on. Patties now being made by Brown's Impossible Foods are suffused with something called heme, it turns out, a molecule that comes from the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants but has the iron-tinged character of hemoglobin.
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Nope,not eating processed food,no way!
You're joking, right? Unless you live on some sort of vegan/ special diet, you're already eating almost nothing but processed food.
Fake meat is the future. Maybe not made like this "burger", but science will change the livestock industry to be more like the farming industry.
I really hope they get it exactly right in the future. The juicy flavourful taste of a medium rare ribeye steak cooked on a charcoal bbq is going to be hard to replicate.
It'll be "real meat" it just won't have come from a "real" animal.