Dutch ‘vegetarian butcher’ turns plants into ‘meat’

AFP Sep 9, 2013, 05.21AM IST

THE HAGUE: Never mind last month's revolutionary testtube beef burger grown from meat stem cells. The Dutch are way ahead with a 'vegetarian butcher' who transforms plants into 'meat'. Dubbed the 'Frankenburger', the lab-grown beef developed at a cost of more than 250,000 euros ($330,000) was unveiled by scientists and served to volunteers in what was billed as a food revolution.

"But we are much more advanced, so-much-so that we have built an unassailable lead over meat produced from stem cells," said Jaap Korteweg, founder of the 'Vegetarian Butcher' .

While the 'cultured beef' in London was made using strands of meat grown from muscle cells taken from a living cow, the Dutch butcher needs only plant matter to make his 'meat' .

Korteweg's shop on a main street in downtown The Hague is packed with a range of products from veggie 'hamburger' patties to 'meatballs' and 'tuna' salad.

One of the secret ingredients is a soy paste, which when put through a special pressurisation machine, imitates meat fibres, a technology invented by the University of Wageningen in the central Netherlands. The demand for an environmentally friendly and vegetarian alternative to meat is growing, with meat production notoriously inefficient, requiring huge swathes of land to grow the crops to feed the animals.

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