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Italian Bioengineer Develops 3D-Printed Vegan Steak From Plant-Based Proteins (dezeen.com)
Italian bioengineer Giuseppe Scionti from Spanish startup Novameat has invented the "world's first" 3D-printed meat-free steak made from vegetable proteins, which mimics the texture of beef. From a report: Vegan ingredients such as rice, peas and seaweed, which provide the amino acids needed for a healthy diet, are turned into a food paste that is 3D-printed to form a raw, steak-like substance. Despite an abundance of meat-free products already on the market that taste similar to animal meats, Scionti found that these are limited to imitation burgers, chicken nuggets or meatballs. None of the offerings reproduce a piece of "fibrous flesh" such as steak or chicken breast. In an effort to reduce the impact of animal agriculture and to improve people's nutrition, the Milanese researcher set out to create a plant-based alternative to "fleshy" meat products.
if it isn't meat...
This is just Animal 57.
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Really? If a paste going through a nozzle counts as "3D printed", every tube of Cake Mate needs a new label.
Seriously, I thought 3D printing hype died down years ago?
If you'll excuse me, I have to go 3D print some paste on my toothbrush before I go to bed...
Mostly random stuff.
...if the partipants aren't gay
I only eat my food when it's alive. I don't even like eating gagh if they're not moving much.
The participants are gay and also thoroughly enjoy tube steak.
I invented a process to turn ribeye steak into tofu.
Why is this not a thing, I wonder?
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Seriously I don't understand the vegan mindset, well the one's that want to eat things that 'resemble' meat. I mean it seems to me that they're saying they don't agree with eating meat bc murder, but they're happy to eat something that looks like the result of murder. WTF?
They make vegan meat strips now that are indistinguishable from the real thing. I have a vegan friend and eat it all the time. Pretty tasty stuff actually. Its like meat strips of beef or pork. Taste and texture are excellent.
I'll stick to eating regular steak, not this nonsense. Kthx!
As an ethical conservationist, I take only what I need from the forest. No GMO, all natural and ethical.
1) It takes 30 minutes to print a 100g "steak" which appears to be a little larger than a quarter.
2) No information on it's taste or consistency. Being translucent is not a good sign.
I really want someone to make a replacement for meat, not because I give a shit about the animals but because they are heavily subsidized and damaging to both the environment and our bodies. This isn't going to cut it.
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Oh, God... Here we go again.
"Why do vegans want things that look and taste like meat?" ... the product is actually for climate-conscious meat-eaters. Call them "hipsters" if you will -- maybe they are. Or maybe it is prepping for an eventual day when livestock has been outlawed because drastic measures are needed to save the climate.
* Not every vegan/vegetarian does. Many shun products that are too much like meat.
* It is for ex-meat eaters who want to recreate a dish in veggie form -- but often not specifically the meat in that dish. Maybe the dish is traditional or a memory from childhood.
* It is for socialising together with meat-eaters without having to feel left out.
* Vegetarians are lazy too, and something pre-packaged is just easy to cook.
* Or
"I eat meat. Meat is yummy"
What an insightful comment! Here is a ball. Why don't you bounce it?
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Why would you insult someone who is trying to improve the world? You may not realize it but the level of animal products per capita in the US is unsustainable and therefore will need to be replaced with something. It's better we figure out how to do so sooner rather than later.
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This is my "I don't care" face. (-__-)
Strawman argument, that's not "improving the world." Your definition of "improving the world" is not accepted.
What nonsense to say it's unsustainable. It is very sustainable and only an engineering problem to make more meat.
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I'm a vegan because I don't belive in factory foods created by multinational conglomerates like Monsanto, ADM, and Bayer.
I prefer my food to come from smaller, woke, artisan factories.
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"Despite an abundance of meat-free products already on the market that taste similar to animal meats"
ROFL
Good luck naming one. Maybe after so long without tasting a juicy steak or burger you forget what one tastes like... and I do mean entirely forget.
Is this part of a new line of Haribo gummy products? That "steak" looks like a gummy candy.
3D-printed meat-free meatball made from vegetable proteins.
Is it called hung lo? Are you bullying gays on the down low?
They keep saying "you are what you eat", and since cattle eat grass, I figure by eating a steak I'm eating vegetables... Time for another salad - a nice, big, New York Strip salad, medium rare!
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The last time we tried to transform The Great Prairie from the perfect habitat for meat on the hoof to crop farmland, it resulted in the greatest ecological disaster in the history of the US: The Dust Bowl.
The steak is a lie. Lies don't improve the world. If someone squirts some plant paste on my plate and tells me it's filet mignon, then I'm going to piss on their leg and tell them it's raining.
Come again, sum yung gai?
There were umpteen million bison out there farting our climate into oblivion. Not to mention the billions of nasty passenger pigeons.
Thats why as a vegan i like to pretend to eat meat.
Vegan are extremists, that's all you need to know about them.
They oppose all form of animal exploitation, and yet the vast majority of them own pets, for their own personal benefit (like most pet owners), but are perfectly ok with that. They say "well my pet is not suffering, it is healthy and happy", well so are the chickens in my back yard that I keep with absolutely no fence, that are free to leave whenever they want. Pets = ok, free range chickens = not ok. Their philosophy is inconsistent and irrational.
They claim all animal killing is murder on the same level as human murder, but they still cannot explain why they don't consider killing plant life also murder. They'll say that killing an animal makes them suffer, when there are ways to instantly kill an animal without suffering, as any competent firearm hunter will tell you. Furthermore, they have no proof that plants don't suffer, especialy when they eat them raw, like many of them do.
I could go on and on, but basically, the only reason vegans are the way they are is their emotional reactionto seeing animals suffer, or to the idea of animal suffering. Veganism is rooted purely and only on emotion, and every seemingly rational argument they make in favor of it is pure rationalisation, trying to intellectually justify their philosophy.
This is NOT hard to understand. I will explain it plainly anyway:
An animal carcass laying in a pool of blood, with organs hanging out or head chopped off, "looks like the result of murder."
A cooked and finished steak does not "look like the result of murder."
See? One looks a LOT more appetizing than the other, even to many meat eaters. And it doesn't matter, because "looks like the result of murder" is not remotely what motivates vegans to avoid eating meat. Many do it out of compassion, some for health reasons, and some because they don't like the taste. This whole "looks like the result of murder" is something YOU made up which is not relevant at all.
So stop being deliberately obtuse.
I will add that there isn't some huge market of Vegans clamoring for something more steak-like than tofu. This invention isn't for that purpose. Someday, when the tech is good enough, it may be able to produce protein-rich food that is as pleasant to eat as meat, but without the huge environmental impact (and at lower cost). Until then, this is just a prototype that isn't ready for any market.
trying to improve the world?
Because one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. Improvement is subjective.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
You may not realize it but the level of animal products per capita in the US is unsustainable
Cows are a renewable resource. They fucking eat grass. If humanity becomes doomed because we can't figure out how to grow grass for cows to eat, we deserve our fate.
Furthermore, if you're talking about cow farts, we can clean that shit out of the atmosphere with technology that exists today. If it actually became a problem, we'd have more motivation to use it.
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That is supposed to be a steak? Looks more like a gummy bear.
"Your definition of "improving the world" is not accepted." Actually empirically, it is. Your tastes don't matter, deplorable nothing faggot.
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As hunter-gatherers the human diet for many thousands of years was primarily fruits supplemented with meat.
Grain based diets and meat based diets are both relatively new, and tend towards being unhealthy, as does a meat-free diet.
As for sustainable meat, what we really need is actual meat tissue that's grown in a lab and not on an animal. Besides avoiding the ethical issues raised by factory farms, lab grown meat should be substantially more efficient, more consistent, and far less impactful on the environment (hint - E. coli outbreaks involving vegetables are always caused by runoff from a livestock operation).
You millennial vegan FREAKS can't just enjoy a normal steak? THAT'S how you get the texture of real beef! Why would you want to replicate the texture if you hate it so much? You know, even if you believe in evolution, don't you think we evolved to love the taste of what our species is used to and what our species needs? YES, humans are MEAT EATERS (well, omnivores, to be exact). Get your heads our of your ASSES. This whole vegan thing is very new. Any radical changes that were made in just a few decades, whilst humans have been on this earth for many magnitudes longer... well, those are, as I said, RADICAL and stupid! Wake up!
We could start eating aborted fetuses. Two problems solved.
You're a known PEDO guruevi! Do you also EAT the poor children you rape you cowardly monster? Disgusting coward!
Did you just say party pants?
It is a serious question, your Honor.
In an effort to reduce the impact of animal agriculture and to improve people's nutrition
BULLSHIT. The Vegan agenda has little to do with 'human health' and everything to do with elevating dumb animals above humans on the food chain. Vegans couldn't give a rats' ass about human health or vitality, they'd just as soon the human race mostly died off just so some dumb cow or chicken can live. Strict vegetarian diets are not healthy for humans because we've been evolving into omnivores for hundreds of thousands of years. No so-called 'moral choice' can magically re-sequence your DNA and turn you into an herbivore. Strict vegetarian diets over the long term cause any number of malnutrition-caused ailments, including interfering with the normal functioning of your brain. Pediatricians will counsel parents to not try to feed their developing children all-plant-based diets because it will sabotage their growth and health and could even kill them; parents that do not heed this advice will have the pediatrician in question call Child Protective Services because it's severe enough to qualify as child abuse.
It is very sustainable and only an engineering problem to make more meat.
Everything is only an engineering problem. The question is, when does the cost become too high to continue?
I looked into your past posts because I had a feeling you might be one of the many people worthy of the label "foe" but I found you to be an intelligent and interesting person. You are rough around the edges like rusty razor blades but not the typical "out of your fucking mind" extremism that fails to comport to logic that's become the staple of post-2008 Slashdot. Congratulations, you win nothing.
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Green slime may be described as a "steak-like-substance". It also may be described as the soilent-green shit Trotsky-slut progressives penned-up in the barb-wire Utah gulag are fed with bread and de-pissed grey-water until they drop dead.
Someone walks up to you and says:
..what do you mean you won't help me, I said I want to improve the world!
..what do you mean you won't help me, I said I want to improve the world!
Hey, I want to improve the world, too! Here, help me spread this weaponized virus that will kill 90% of the humans on the planet, then stop and leave us alone!
Someone else walks up to you and says:
Hey, I want to improve the world, too! Here, take this bomb and go blow up that Mosque full of muslims, then take this assault rifle and go kill as many blacks as you can!
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Wake me up when they can 3D print a nice vegan sopressata that actually tastes like sopressata.
I hope they take away this bioengineer's Italian citizenship. He's making the rest of us look bad.
You are welcome on my lawn.
As said plenty of times before.
Emulating meat is something most vegans do not get at all. Why emulate something you do not like anyway?
Veganism is just not natural. It is almost like illness. I know a few ppl suffering from sever lack of B12, and guess what - they stopped being vagans. It is not normal human behavior to take shots just to keep being vegan. What is the big deal? Not healt because they eat GMO plants every day.
My god, don't the comments here show the almost universal sociopathy of Slashdotters... Incapable of the most basic form of empathy.
And also incapable of questioning anything they've been told since childhood. Eating meat is totally unnatural for humans, which is why we can't chase down animals and kill them with our bare hands and teeth - do we have claws? Are we able to bite a cow on the back of the neck and break their spine to kill them? Are your hands designed to kill animals? Think about it. Yet the vast majority of people will swear blind that they are supposed to eat meat, without actually thinking it through.
Lab grown meat (not the 'meat' discussed in this article) is very soon going to be cheaper than 'real' meat, and at that point the argument for torturing and killing animals (yes, they are tortured, but how would a sociopath even comprehend such suffering if it isn't their own?) will be over.
Your definition of "improving the world" is not accepted.
THAT. THat, thAT. THAT's the problem. Who decides who's right? The SJW / PITA / whatever people have already decided they're right and everyone else is wrong and in some cases must be immediately stopped. Discussion? Convincing other people? Who has time for that?
Let's say we all agree that pollution is bad and needs to be reduced. THEY want to remove all coal plants, I want to remove half, YOU want to remove the single absolute worst offender (by whatever standards.) Who's right? We ALL are. Who's wrong? We ALL are.
Who's in control? Well that's an interesting question. In the US it's supposed to be a democracy, with people arguing for both sides and somehow coming to an agreement. Except people have lost faith in (some/all of) their elected officials, and Climate Change! Save the Baby Whales! Save the Amazon! seem to have reached a fever pitch. But I'm sure we can still go higher -- after all, fatigue sets in so you have to be louder and louder to attract and keep attention. Luckily we have "filter bubbles" and "safe spaces" and Facebook communities to keep us from the horrible din of conflicting ideas.
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It is very sustainable and only an engineering problem to make more meat.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Vegans say that it's wrong to kill any animal. How much do you want to bet they'd be willing to slaughter hundreds of animals? Just go to the vegan's home and sprinkle flea eggs.
If you take a country like New Zealand, replacing meat with a vegetable alternative will massively cut down emmissions. And in reply to those not understanding the vegan mindset. Part of that mindset is to reduce the amount of pain and suffering humans cause animals. Replacing meat with and alternative means less animals butchered (perhaps).
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Really, I don't get the obsession over recreating the worst aspects of meat "for the sake" of vegetarians. Who wants to chew some grizzly tough piece of fibrous matter sculpted to emulate being ripped from animal corpses? Give me a smooth piece of tofu any old day.
So much THIS!
I love my veggies, but CHRIST vegan food is disgusting almost all the time. It's either horribly bland or tastes like actual dirt, or, it tastes entirely of spinach / kale / some other leafy green since that is all they know how to fucking use.
The only decent thing I have had that didn't taste like 10 kinds of ass was a Quorn tikka masala. That was damn tasty. But that is specifically because the quorn itself has a pretty mild taste similar to how chicken usually tastes, not too strong but not too bland.
There is nothing wrong with eating meat.
The big problem is eating TOO much meat. Hell, just eating too much period, never mind the meat.
Most humans alive today can get by on 1-2 meals a day on a typical 8-10inch plate. No heaped servings either.
The most obese areas in the world eat 4x or more. It's obscene.
Unless you are a hunter-gatherer, there is zero reason for eating that much. We simply don't expend the energy we get from those meals.
Not only that, those peoples bodies are no longer going through autophagy at required healthy levels due to said diets, which is THE biggest reason for most modern illness. (including the recent-ish explosion in cancer over the past 2 decades)
The body can't repair itself if it is flooded with nutrients. It simply stops.
"Starving" is a literal feature of the body. Farming royally fucked with that. Our body hasn't had enough time to adapt to that since it is such a fundamental feature of our biology.
Of course, with modern scummy companies, they have tricked people in to thinking not eating every few hours means you will die or other stupid shit. Some people seriously think that. Or at the least, end up unwell.
They have burned in to their minds so hard they actually do end up feeling physically sick, a psychosomatic reaction to not eating constantly.
It's a disaster.
The only solution is lab grown meat, basically bioengineered muscle tissue And that's some way off. Most of the world eat a fraction of the meat that Americans eat in the Standard American Diet.
We've been making fibrous food for centuries, it's called noodles. Surely you can "print" a vegan-friendly steak-like material in mere seconds using the same method.
100 grams every 30 minutes will never sell, my family would need to have a 3d printer working on this for 16 hours a day to survive off of this "meat", and we would most definitely not prefer vegan "steak" unless it's substantially cheaper.
Indeed. I've recently patented the '3D cow pasture' - it's a bit like vertical gardening, except with cows.
this becomes the most millennial thing i've ever read on /.
So it must look like steak and taste like shit.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Other than sounding fancy and futuristic, why not just mix a bunch of proteins together like all other fake meat does?
So you're saying that killing off species is good for the planet.
Don't worry, they'll tell you.
No seriously, let them develop this....more steak for the rest of us unethical evil meat eaters.
End of Line.
There are nearly a billion cows on earth. If people quit eating them they would be nearly extinct and seen only in zoos.
Please tell me how this horrificly over processed fake meat is any better than the soy'd, GMO monstrosities that we already have today?
Vegans need to stop making imitations and make creations of their own. Vegan steak, please. How about a 4 day cured and smoked watermelon?
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There are a lot of other vegetarian meats available, many more convincing than the meat in the article.
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Read that it is an old Indian word meaning terrible hunter.
Eat steak, eat steak
Eat a big ol' steer
Eat steak, eat steak
Do we have one near?
Eat beef, eat beef
It's a mighty good food
It's a grade A meal
When I'm in the mood
Cowpokes'll come from a near and far
When you throw a few rib-eyes on the fire
Roberto Duran ate two before a fight
'Cause it gives a mighty man an awful lot of mighty might
Eat steak, eat steak
Eat a big ol' steer
Eat steak, eat steak
Do we have one near?
Eat beef, eat beef
It's a mighty good food
It's a grade A meal
When I'm in the mood
Eat meat, eat meat, filet mignon
Eat meat, eat meat, eat it all day long
Eat a few T-bones till you get your fill
Eat a New York cut hot off the grill
Eat a cow, eat a cow 'cause it's good for you
Eat a cow, eat a cow, it's a thing that goes moo
Look at all the cows in the slaughterhouse yard
Gotta hit 'em in the head, gotta hit 'em real hard
First you gotta clean it then the butcher cuts it up
Throws it on a scale, throws an eyeball in a cup
Saw a big Brangus steer standing right over there
So I rustled up a fire, cooked him medium rare
Bar-B-Q'ed his brisket, a-roasted his rump
Fed my dog that ol' Brangus steer's hump
Eat steak, eat steak
Eat a big ol' steer
Eat steak, eat steak
Do we have one near?
Eat beef, eat beef
It's a mighty good food
It's a grade A meal
When I'm in the mood
What nonsense to say it's unsustainable. It is very sustainable and only an engineering problem to make more meat.
The easiest engineering solution is to reduce the number of humans, and nature may very well choose that route.
"...an abundance of meat-free products already on the market that taste similar to animal meats..." [citation needed]
Make meat substitutes passable (it doesn't even have to be quite as good as the real thing, though that would be best) and cheaper than meat, and it will take off. With steak being so expensive, and also so bad for the environment, that could be both an attainable goal and a big win. It's got to look appealing too though, since it's not going to be breaded or put in a bun.
Candy makers beat them to it. and they look tastier https://previews.123rf.com/ima...