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Meat products from 3D printer could be the new food for aged care homes and restaurants
The Australian Broadcasting Company ^ | December 1, 2016 | Sarina Locke

Posted on 12/02/2016 11:10:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Meat could be used in 3D printing to produce a soft food with specific nutrients and suitable for people who have problems with chewing or swallowing.

By using a meat extract as ink, layer-by-layer, a food could be created that is as soft as butter and like meat, packed with nutrients.

Meat and Livestock Australia was alerted to the possibility of red meat three-dimensional printing after seeing it done with chicken meat in Germany.

The research, development and marketing body has investigated a way to turn every last bit of meat from the bone into a high value product and believes it is feasible.

Sean Starling the general manager of Research, Development and Innovation at MLA said a high protein ink or powder could be used in a 3D printer....

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: 3dprinters; 3dprinting; elderly; meat

1 posted on 12/02/2016 11:10:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Soylent Green?


2 posted on 12/02/2016 11:16:48 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
three-dimensional printing after seeing it done with chicken meat

Someone beat you to it.


3 posted on 12/02/2016 11:18:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

UCK.


4 posted on 12/02/2016 11:51:00 AM PST by EinNYC
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Meanwhile Hillary, Obama and the elites will still be eating Chilean Sea Bass, Heritage Pork, Wagyu beef, lobster and caviar. Guaranteed.


5 posted on 12/02/2016 11:56:16 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Meanwhile Hillary, Obama and the elites will still be eating Chilean Sea Bass, Heritage Pork, Wagyu beef, lobster and caviar. Guaranteed.

May they choke on it. The way that the elderly, who should be revered, are exploited and treated in this country is abominable.

6 posted on 12/02/2016 12:05:18 PM PST by EinNYC
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