Loads of good folks on their advisors. Definitely have it in for vegetable oils. What do we know about these guys and what I presume is the product they are (?) developing?
Loads of people onto this but i think the motivation is to make fake meat that is better than the current
Seems they’re trying to come up with a cost-effective way to make a healthy fat (low in those darned n-6 PUFAs). Iirc a rival startup was named C18 or something, a reference to stearic acid, so I expect it’ll be something along the lines of tallow or cocoa butter but with way lower environmental costs
We’re still quite a ways off from fake meat, but fake tallow… I can see that happening
For sure. We already have Crisco, so another brand shouldn’t be difficult to come up with.
It will be interesting to see how those costs are calculated. The environmental costs of meat production and putative benefits of monocropping are quite different in reality from what they are often purported to be.
Crisco has quite a bit of PUFAs, so I would hesitate to call that fake tallow.
Fermentation can be pretty efficient and there’s just not enough room on the planet to replace all the vegetable oil with tallow, no matter the environmental impact of cattle