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GM just took a stake in a startup that makes imitation leather out of mushrooms
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| Tue October 18, 2022
| Tue October 18, 2022
Posted on 10/19/2022 5:45:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
General Motors’ venture capital arm has invested in a California startup that’s making imitation leather from mushrooms.
The material is made by MycoWorks using the root-like structures of mushrooms, called mycelia. It could provide an alternative to both traditional leather made from animal skins, usually cattle, and artificial leather made from plastics. The auto industry is the largest user of leather other than for shoes, according to 2015 data from International Council of Tanners.
MycoWorks grows these threadlike mycelia into flexible, leather-like sheets. The resulting material feels like leather, has similar durability and can be colored using processes that do not involve harmful substances, just as animal-based leather can.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: doomedtofailure; fakeleather; generalmotors; governmentmotors; leather; mushrooms
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To: nickcarraway
Part of your car seat as a pizza topping has some possibilities.
To: nickcarraway
Now when the car burns, everyone in smoke distance gets high on the psychedelic ‘shrooms.
To: nickcarraway
Sounds like Shark Tank stuff.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:49:51 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(!!!)
To: nickcarraway
Rich...Corinthian...leather...
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:53:12 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: TexasGator
What’s that? A honky Batmobile?
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:54:01 PM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: nickcarraway
I wonder if it’s tasty to critters like mice, rats and squirrels.
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:55:12 PM PDT
by
Dutch Boy
(The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
To: nickcarraway
GM experiments never go well.
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posted on
10/19/2022 5:55:39 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Maine Mariner
Make the dashboard out of pepperoni.
To: Billthedrill
Rich...Corinthian Psilocybin...leather...
To: nickcarraway
Nine out of ten cows endorse this product.
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posted on
10/19/2022 6:00:47 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
To: nickcarraway
you can pan fry belt in butter
To: nickcarraway
You could make ten cows out of leather from the mushrooms in my yard right now!
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posted on
10/19/2022 6:07:58 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The Formula Fruit cars are really fast...
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posted on
10/19/2022 6:11:38 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
To: nickcarraway
You can buy a new 300 thousand electric piece of crap with fungus seats.
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posted on
10/19/2022 6:14:11 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: nickcarraway
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