Posted on 12/09/2013 1:39:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco’s tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, but it isn’t like most of its neighbors that develop software, websites and mobile phone apps. Its mission is to find plant replacements for eggs.
Inside, research chefs bake cookies and cakes, whip up batches of flavored mayonnaise and pan-fry omelets and French toast—all without eggs.
Funded by prominent Silicon Valley investors and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces. …
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The only surprise is leftist extremists aren’t hijacking billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to “invest” in fixing food technology that’s not broken. If there’s nothing wrong with eggs, shouldn’t the feral government intervene for one reason or a few dozen others?
I would guess that manufactured food from very simple precursors, some of them grown conventionally and some cultured, will become common over the next 20 years. 3D food printing is already here, although I don’t think it has been commercialized. Some will object that consumers will not accept radically new foods. Maybe, but one likely point of mass market entry could be highly utilitarian convenience foods that could be manufactured with perfect nutritional balance, none of the bad stuff you’re trying to avoid, and added health attributes. And presto: you have the nutritional bar, marketed not as a substitute for the traditional foods you know and love, but as an easy, convenient, complete meal in one bite when you don’t have time for a sit-down meal. From there acceptance would grow rapidly.
Plant based eggs? No thanks. If GOD didn’t want us to have eggs, He wouldn’t have made them.
I’m sure plant-based egg substitutes will be as popular and widely consumed as veggie burgers.
The article talked a lot about “greenhouse gases.” It also discussed “sustainable agriculture” and all of the other buzzwords radical vegetarians use to try to force vegetarianism down everyone’s throats. They make these claims about how land-intensive growing animals for food is, without ever mentioning that those animals eat plants and plant parts that are inedible for humans. I cannot see how more vegetarianism can have any effect other than to increase the amount of land used for agriculture, all to provide a diet that is not as nutritious or appealing as a diet that includes food from both plants and animals.
No, there’s nothing wrong with eggs, per se. However, not everybody can eat eggs and there are also times when you might need to substitute for them.
Into a frying pan along with some bacon.
I”m sure one of the feedstocks for their ersatz eggs and chicken will be sewage. The disdain is palpable, the same disdain that had a certain well-known soft drink manufacturer using tissue from abortions for a flavoring agent.
That sounds good.
I don’t eat many fried eggs (too fattening) but one of my favorite breakfasts used to be two eggs over easy, buttered toast, and sausage. Lots of calories, but sooooo good.
“The disdain is palpable, the same disdain that had a certain well-known soft drink manufacturer using tissue from abortions for a flavoring agent.”
I think that was busted as untrue. The tissue was used in some sort of flavor testing, not as a flavor.
It is still heinous, though.
Yep. Sometimes eggs bother me, and sometimes they don’t, so I like to sub them out when I can and save them for when I feel like having just eggs (breakfast). Plus, the egg replacer I have lasts forever and is non-perishable. Oh, and when you bake with a sub, the bowl is always safe to lick!
Good, maybe the competition will bring the price of eggs down. Large eggs are now $2.29/dozen at the only grocery store in this town.
I don’t think they should invest public money in this effort. The private research is wonderful.
There are several groups that would use this technology when viable and cost effective. Vegans and vegetarians get the most press. Those allergic to eggs would love it, but don’t get the same attention. And then there are companies that want to make food products that have the binder effect / glue effect of eggs without using the more expensive eggs. Which could bring down the cost of baked goods.
There’s a niche for it. Those who cannot eat eggs for religious reasons and ethical ones (vegetarians, vegans, Hindus I think). And those allergic to eggs.
Which one should they replace first?
Let’s see. “Soylent Chicken”, “Soylent Eggs”, or to ripoff Dr. Seuss, call them “Green Eggs”.
As far as the chicken goes, I would agree with the Cajun chef who referred to airline chicken as “Tastes like shicken”.
I’m sure that somehow they are hijacking our tax dollars. Either by credits or deductions at the very least.
Sunny side up tofu and bacon, pancakes without butter and the syrup made from re-cycled motor oil. hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.
Putting the tinfoil on firmly, then...
chickens are a great way for people to become “food independent” and are jokingly referred to by many in the prepper community as the “gateway drug”, just a step up from gardening.
This very well could be just another anti-independence move, sponsored by nefarious entities.
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