Silicon Valley Startup’s Goal: Animal-Free Meat By 2035
Impossible Foods already produces 1 million pounds of plant-based “ground beef” every month, but it wants to expand beyond that.
The Mercury News:
Impossible Foods Explores Meat-Free Lamb, Chicken, Pork And Fish
Today, a tasty cow-free burger. Tomorrow: fewer dead chickens, lambs, pigs and fish. That’s the mission of Impossible Foods, a Silicon Valley startup that has begun conducting tests in its Redwood City laboratory to apply its patented technologies — already proven to create sizzling and tasty engineered “beef” — to a wide array of other foods, perhaps even milk, eggs and cheese. (Krieger, 9/13)
In other public health news —
The Mercury News:
Is Diet Soda Really Bad For You Or Not?
A spate of recent studies have diet soda lovers fretting over their bubbly beverages. Studies have shown that sucking down diet pop means you may be avoiding sugar and calories but overdosing on chemicals that can be dangerous to your health. (D'Souza, 9/12)