Posted on June 28, 2006, by KellyMc in Food.

This just in …

A team of experts from The Solae Company has invented a versatile new generation of concepts, applications and ingredients that will allow meat companies to produce a nutritious product with virtually the same exceptional taste and texture of traditional beef or chicken.

You’re asking yourself, “ What miracle substance are they using to create this new fake meat? Soy? Fungus? Kelp?”.

Nope. It’s made of meat. They’re taking meat (okay, and vegetable protein) and processing it to be more like meat.

I finally picked up Omnivore’s Dilemma on Monday, and am on the cusp of becoming completely insufferable on the topic of processed foods. But if it can get me to stop eating Taco Bell, and anything else made from “concepts and applications”, you’ll have to bear with me.