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crunch time for the food industry welcome to mate now a number of startups wild wide have caught the eye of investors with their plans to feed the planet instead of meat from the farm they're growing it in laps or designing substitutes the pretty secretive about these old because they hope that their innovative food products could soon be worth billions my colleague ben for sudan managed to get this exclusive look at a startup attempts in spain. feeding the world is on everyone's lips scientists say the planet's doomed if we keep eating meat. a viable alternative could transform the way we use our resources. industry is closely watching to see who'll solve this 1000000000 euro question. the high stakes main secrecy at the start ups developing

a substitute many wouldn't let us film but the founder of nova meets in barcelona offered to show me his printable steak it's not real meat but just to be shown he says it tastes just like it as an avid meat eater i'm going to take a lot of convincing. so how long is this going to take this one in this process is going to take around 10 minutes 10 minutes this process creates special michael filaments in this microfilm is try to mimic corey sambo what is actually. moscow's in story for the chickens. is it exactly the same. as the muscle tissue that you would get in a tissue up in a man is very complex is created in a year's very organized way and so. in our case with. the so we found that. there was able to order this microfiber as if they were muscular

white mimic meat why why not create something totally new is there is a lot of people in our society they're looking for that they're not eating meat but still would like to avoid sacrificing needs so having a something that is bent based that itself is safe and is if they stop me is what the big part of the question was. drawn you right because how easy is it to. it's on the stage. and we have to make it real which is the hard part which will created sure the structure. it's quite easy but. it's it sounds quite complicated all in all and it's not even meet the end of the day what's the advantage when we think about the way we are producing meat that it's quite complex know how we have to go of the crop that will feed. how we have to manage to

combine the protein from the crop so the cow that's for me that's complex. that's not that complex because we are taking. from visitor birds. we are just combining the right ones and putting that together with the printer. protein makes from bryce and p.s. is cheap the test machine costs 5000 euros the bigger one for mass production would be half a 1000000 number meats raised a big chunk of funds but won't reveal how much the savings on raising and slaughtering livestock though is immense. once you really have a different start ups or different companies bringing this to the supermarket you we'll have a price which will go lower than actual meat and one of the savings for the

environment because it is quite energy intensive business we use something at room temperature and now we've got much pressure we don't control and the you mean that you see in the machine is quite simple and we believe would be more efficient also in terms of energy costs so all in all how much less energy and water should be around 95 percent more efficient in terms of both of less than the wire less water required and let's get some of. the big taste test. well it's only a little piece of steak but it's the prototype. while. it's surprising it's not you don't think of plants immediately think that it's a meat but you read. my 1st 3 d. printed steak. and survived you ate my piece was oh sorry. i was hungry in filming all day. on the 1st step and then we think it's special in

some way so hopefully we'll talk again next year in see if we get to the next level do you think you could make me a big steak next year i'm sure it is that is will be there. at least one of the grams and something that can fill your stomach. here but we don't get to start it was about you the boys had better get to work investors are waiting and i'm not the only hungry one the population is exploding. we keep ripping up forests to plant the crops we need to feed the animals that end up on our plates. planet is in peril ringback. now let's face it eating meat every day is not exactly a happy to that's representative of every person on the planet there are many vegetarians and vegans out there some for religious reasons others for the health

of the climate what is best for our planet here are some facts and figures. abstain from meat and save the world forget batman today superheroes are vegetarians they're really doing something to help the environment right whether classic vegetarian vegan or fruitarian more and more people all over the world are giving up meat. vegetarianism has even become a status symbol in many countries but are they really making a difference. let's look at the data of livestock farming has a terrible carbon footprint look at that 1000000000 cattle worldwide. raising them produces vast clouds of greenhouse gases twice as much as is a myth and by planes globally. and the industry also uses an immense amount of water around 3000 liters of h 2 o.

go into the production of a single beefsteak anough to take a shower every day for 3 months. and raising animals for meat takes up a lot of space if we all stopped eating it tomorrow it would free up an estimated 30000000 square kilometers. that's an area roughly the size of africa. in all those ways meat really is terrible for the environment but it's also relative for example by nava condo that's been shipped halfway around the world is worse for the environment than buying your steak from a local farmer not least due to the transport involved. so it really makes the most sense to ask where is my food coming from. local free range animals fed largely on grass hovan rich the soil with their manure

. and that's good for the environment. so much of this even claim that free range cattle could actually help slow global warming. water consumption in every area of agriculture depends largely on the farming methods being employed in the arid regions of chile for example where many of a condos are produced it takes around 320 liters of water to produce a single fruit that's not exactly low impact agriculture. in other words to make a difference you should eat things that are in season and that come from your region so consume less meat and when you do eat it check its origins maybe it's time to come up with another category of environmental hero no less meat or terry. ok so been a vegetarian for some 30 years now doesn't automatically make me an environmental hero but it makes me

a pretty atypical german people here simply love their meat and sausages and that's part of their staple diet but here to change is coming even major fast food chains famous or notorious for their burgers and are changing their ways it has been a slow process but it is picking up pace still if you look at a typical german christine you might think the switch to meet lists will be quite a challenge. around and sizzling straight off the grill. and orwell smoked this is the way germans like their meat and they do like their meat. pleasures but to me just part of our food our nutrition that's the way it's always been muzzled. germans consume almost 60 kilograms of me to gear on average that's considerably higher than the world average of $34.00 kilos. but even in the land of the curry vorse things are

changing. consumers are chewing over the idea of going meat looks to back animal rights environmental protection and elf take this green food truck at a farmer's market in fribourg it's sausages are oddly angular they're made of tofu . and this man is sampling them for professional reasons he's head of sales for the company that makes the tofu. stops on losses and i think it's a general trend actually plant based diet is a mega trend more and more people especially young people are getting on the bandwagon but some call it a gret effect and people are questioning their consumption habits and plans proteins are big opportunity and we see that in the rising hunger for totals like. real biggins make up just one percent of the population in germany the proportion of vegetarians is somewhat higher between 6 and 10 percent but the biggest change

is in a 3rd of the population who say they intend to eat less meat. this is a new target group for traditionally meat centric fast food chains picked donalds for instance which has nearly $38000.00 outlets worldwide launched a new product in germany this year. alongside the $40000.00 tons of meat that the hamburger. and processes every year in germany alone it now offers of the burger as part of the standard menu. it's fried separately from the product so it is officially begun. what does it consist of we wanted to know. as fast as it's a paddle based on saw in wheat but that looks very meat like and has a relatively meat like taste a lot you can actually expect things i suppose customers have asked for it 10 years

ago back to them they could have made it sooner. today the stage seems to be set for meat that isn't meat. and that has turned saw it from the villain of the piece to a star among crop plants. it's so protein rich that it's far too valuable to be used as animal fodder. here soybeans are being milked for use in tofu. in the next step will be heat is empress to create a mask that can be seized and informed into any shape. and i'm thinking of your mom. all in the beginning of our company developed our own tofu sausages to allow people to make an association with something they already knew that you want to make it easier for them to switch that up to fixing. things

as now it's important for us to develop foods are distinctive and speaking in i can stand despite. what does a plant based substitute even have to look like meat that's still a debate among vegetarians and it was back when typhoon tofu was founded more than 30 years ago the family run business now produces 100 tonnes of tofu every week. that's far less than it could given the current jump in demand. put it certified organic tofu is made to a large extent by hand and tofu is still a nice product in germany unlike in other regions of the world. also in this it's a soggy justice with a long one kind of danger as the mother lands or the mother continent for all kinds of soy products that people i know it's been feeding tofu is one of the many varieties and side feeling tofu has been eaten for centuries there so it pretty much has the status of a food staple fish and it's often combined with animal products tofu and fish or

tofu and meat are a matter of course in asia i use this in austin said president bush. in fact the meat portion in asia is getting bigger and bigger in china for example there's a direct correlation between meat consumption and economic growth the more money people make the more meat is on the table china's per capita meat consumption has already surpassed that of germans. as a result german pig growers are exporting their surpluses to china while it's home there are more and more flexitarian are semi vegetarians because new things are. i don't eat much meat. maybe once or twice a week but not much more to 5 hours of or. less meat a small but potentially healthy development for individual consumers and the global climate. to think that when i ate out i used to have to explain that

chicken or fish does not fit into a vegetarian diet. at times have changed now one of the big players joining the club is nestle a conglomerate is investing in meats replacement products on a grand scale we caught up with christiane adams marketing director off nationalise vegetarian and vegan unit to find out more. this made a nestle is controversial and it has lots of brands and makes a huge range of products even from what was a supermarket here in frankfurt only sell stuff made by nestle now it's getting into beacon foods has that going to go up to. criticism of nestlé has focused on various issues including its use of scarce water resources and its indirect involvement in the clearing of tropical rain forests. it doesn't cut down trees itself but it does buy lots of palm oil from plantations on

the land. to swiss giant wants to be seen as benevolent not a force of evil that is perhaps one reason for its new concentration on plant based foods christian adams is the public face of garden gourmet nestle's vegetarian and vegan unit it has recently developed soit based mince meat. we already saw a boom in alternatives to meet several years ago but then it faded do you think it'll be different this time just as much of this is a critical it's about the quality of the product is much better now back then when you say a tofu sausage at a grow party it didn't taste of much in the consistency wasn't so great either be sceptical the sense that it's not today's products but it's for example the really not so different from their meaty counterparts. we kind of people will accept them

. like 1st days. it's very salty. that's good. but it's still not like meat. nestle spent years developing its vegan mince burgers and meatballs it's an investment it hopes will pay off. i was this doesn't cost as much as men's is in part because it's more in germany the recommended retail price for a 200 gram pack is 3 euros 49 depending on the quality mince meat costs between $6.00 and $8.00 euros a kilo so yes it is a bit more expensive. for many nestlé is still one of the major bad eggs of the food industry to suppress so coffee pods and drinks bottles generate vast amounts of plastic waste 1700000 tonnes and 2017 how is that compatible with nestle's

efforts to be seen as a force for good. this is often times in which people associate begin with eco friendly and good for the climate and leslie still makes lots of products that aren't so green. how do you deal with this image problem you know for the feel good things. that. mr schneider recently said that nestle has committed to 0 net. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 over the all parts of the group and to do better for the sake of the environment of course that is quite a challenge to our cattle brand does still sell meat but the trend is certainly towards plant based products the focus of the stock and often to be touched with. the idea behind the garden grow made brand to create some distance from the nestle brand for marketing purposes. it's just a hunch it's no secret that it belongs to nestle and it's so on the website and on the packaging. yes and no doubt some people who aren't exactly fond of knowsley

probably won't buy the product but ultimately it's the quality of the product that was the time in long term whether they sell or not and an awful lot of. this company canteen already serves the meatless meat. major players in the food industry such as nestlé could do a lot for the climate if they terribly change their ways but time is short on the changes needed are great. and us in many sectors it's rarely the big players that initiate change it's the small ones the young ones those who think outside the box and come up with new ideas in short startups they tend to be attuned to what people like to buy and eat and that can be quite lucrative and that is why a 1000000000 base company is investing and startups to bring about what it calls the food revolution. german can be manufacturing economy has started a venture capital fund in downtown berlin the family owned firm hopes cultures

green food will encourage hip sustainable nutrition trends and make money at the same time as a. mango coconut milk or a banana vase or a lemon juice or all the powder and cold pressed not to pasteurize by heating the innovation in the sector is the pressure and so here's the world's 1st getting ready to eat as a whole. the manager of the fund who's been a vegetarian since childhood funs food projects that she believes are forward looking and environmentally friendly bacon chips without pork or hemp bars and she's prepared to invest between 200002 1000000 euros and that's mike it may sound as an all but especially for investors from the tech side the taste test and top class in the food sector if the taste isn't great you won't get customers coming back for more sometimes we get companies with great ideas that take plant based

issues or meat alternative seriously but then the product doesn't taste good right and i'm. going to make this. it's a growing market sales a vegan and vegetarian products are rising significantly in germany paid 2018 the market was worth over 1200000000 euros. touches green food has so far invested in 8 startups among the firms they've invested in is the porridge maker kaja. have. actually came across profited by accident they had a pop up store in the main train station and i walked past it on a sunday and tried it and found the taste fantastic i got talking to the founders and learned about their concept but we ended up investing because it was the 1st healthy. breakfast to go on the market yes. it marked

in 2014 schubert open for lin's 1st parg bar with 2 friends they wanted to offer something different from the bakery chains and i thought it's always easier to sell something with meat a breakfast with hand will sell people want that but there are enough existing concepts that offer it already we don't have to. $40000.00 portions of powerage across hoffer counters counters every month odes fruit and nuts are challenging meats dominance. that's when we started we renovated a small kebab shop that we scraped all the fat off the walls and said let's start our parts business after a few months we took part in an accelerator program run by german rail they were looking for startups to make train stations more appealing it was mostly tech firms with a few food companies we were one of them and they were impressed by our part we operated a pup location and berlin's main station for 6 weeks and it went incredibly well

for. their concept is simple take the old set of been in europe for centuries and add different toppings and fruits. just went under schubert and her co-founders were given the cash injection from conscious green food they made the leap to become a chain. there paul ridge can now be bought in 5 german cities and 2 more will follow him 2019 this poses new challenges for the berlin startup. it's more difficult because we're reaching many more people and while it is surance it's more complicated so as packaging we're mainly a take away business. sustainability and packaging is a bit of a contradiction it's pick and although you could bring your own container and get it filled with these questions keep coming up and we try to find the right answers and keep on growing him. you know if it's of us but not also by the hands that think. the getting food is now a trend in german cities this shows where most begin foodstuffs are being rolled

out 15 percent of global market launches take place in germany closely followed by the united kingdom in the united states in spain and france it's only 4 percent so a market for wealthy countries but there's more to it if any witnesses i wish there was wider awareness of the relationship between nutrition and the environment but such an important point and we need to become more aware of it and i believe we're just at the beginning especially in germany is a bit of one in the united states people are already 2 years further along in terms of consciousness that confession is so. germany may be catching up fast but for the time being sustainable food trends remain a nice market for young and well heeled urban foodies. well maybe one day more people here in germany will catch up with us vegetarians it's tasty that's

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