Writers On The Run
September, 2012
The laboratory race to create the next great meal? Are engineers making your next dinner? Beyond Meat, a start-up launched with investment money from the co-founders of Twitter, is developing a new non-meat product made from a mix of soy and pea protein that retains the taste and mouthfeel of real chicken. Meanwhile in Japan, researchers created three clones using cells extracted from Yasufuku, a steer renowned for siring more than 40,000 wagyu cattle, the breed used for Japan's exceptional Kobe...