Redefine Meat has created a plant-based steak in a bid to reduce the harmful effects of meat farming on our planet.
The Israeli meat substitute company use 3D printers to create the steak with a recipe consisting of soy and pea proteins, coconut fat and sunflower oil and various other ingredients. The company claim that the plant-based steak will have the texture, exact taste and appearance of a meat steak.
They have worked with leading butchers, chefs and food technologists to formulate the ‘Alt-Steak’, hoping to mimic the gourmet feel of a real steak.
Redefine Meat calls its technology ‘proprietary 3D meat modeling, food formulations and food printing technology to deliver a new category of complex-matrix “meat” in a cost effective and scalable way’.
The CEO of Redefine Meat, Eshchar Ben-Shitrit, aims to redefine the meat industry – making more plant-based alternatives more widely available. He hopes to create enough 3D printers to replace the demand for cows, producing 250kg of steak alternative per day.
The company promises to be an affordable alternative to real meat, and to have 95% less of an impact on the environment than the meat industry. They also stress that in order to reduce this impact, we must find a meat alternative – as meat eating is so ingrained within our society and culture.
Ben-Shitrit says: ‘Since day one of the company, we have been working on creating a tasty and affordable plant-based alternative to steaks, one of the most cherished food products and the driver of the entire meat industry. To enable mass adoption, we knew that creating an alternative meat product that was both high in quality and nutritional composition would require new technologies and production processes never seen before in the food industry.’
Redefine Meat‘s website says that: one billion cows are used to meet the demand for their meat with the animals consuming more fresh drinking water than the whole of the human population on Earth. Cows also produce more environmental pollution than all the cars in use worldwide and consume enough food to feed billions of humans.
Redefine Meat claims that ‘we plan to sell the 3D printing technology directly to meat distributors in 2012, and to supermarkets in the future.’
