Soy Chicken A Reality

Huh, teh SPU may be more realistic than I thought.

That is quite amazing! I will have to try this soy-chicken! Heck, if it's good enough, and cheap enough to produce, it could eventually begin to rival real chicken in the marketplace, at least in some scenarios. Imagine if they can get soy to accurately replicate beef and pork? Obviously this would only be aplicable in certain situations, usually where the meat has been processed, such as ground beef for burgers, or ground pork for sausage. People would still want there real beef and pork cuts of meat, but I can imagine the over-all amount of cow and pig farms going down, and the space being used to produce a far greater quantity of soy-meats. Potentially, the solution to world hunger.

We already have candidate solutions to world hunger. The problems are more politics and distribution than production.


Anyway, I like this development. Bypass Halal requirements for Muslims (it isn't Chicken), circumvent the objections of ethical vegetarians (the ones who object to the killing, or methods of killing, of animals), and lowering the cost of cheap food. Science in the public interest.

Only substitute I'll accept to chicken pig and cow is some other critter. maybe deer, boar, and quail.

I would not eat soy if my life depended on it. From the research I've seen it's has estrogen like properties and benig male and having elevated levels of estrogen is not a good thing.



I do have more research and studies just not on hand.

perhaps why all vegitarians are women?

Yeah, good one.

I am also not very convinced about the nutritional value of soy products, specifically protein value and such. One study I read that says feeding children in development without any sort of animal derived products (milk, cheese, meat, etc) results in such kids at the end of development have 80% less muscle mass then those fed animal products.

For example in a 100 g serving soybeans (446 cal) have 36.5 g of protein, while ground beef has 259 cal and 26.1 g of protein per 100 g. Meat gives you 25% more protein per calorie.

Im pretty sure though that the future of food production lies in foods such as soy, due to the vast cost and impact of meat production on the world.

As a former vegetarian I would just like to say "fuck you".

Not new. A friend of mine told me years ago about a soy veggy-burger that tasted so much like meat (try had chicken and beef) that she got sick. Some are not for vegitarians as much as they are for meat-eaters that want something that tastes like meat for diets or health reasons.

There's an Asian supermarket DLN and I use that has all sorts of tinned soy based faux meat- chicken, beef and pork for vegetarians who want the flavor in their meals. We keep daring each other to buy it to serve to our families, no one has yet.

I have a lot of vegetarian friends, so I've eaten my fair share of faux-meat. Regardless of how well it resembles the original, none of it has ever been any damn good.

I have, once.
It was a vegie burger made by...BOCA, at some restaurant. Mom--the vegetarian--ordered the burger, Dad and I went real beef. The food came, it was good, then Mom asked us to taste her burger. She was half way through it and had realized that it was tasting like meat.

Dad and I both could not tell the difference, it had the color, texture, and flavor of real hamburger. So we called the waitress over.

Nope, it was veggie. But not a burger you could buy for the home, it was a line that BOCA only produced to sell in restaurants.

If they fried the burger on a grill with real meat, then cross-contamination from the tasty meat grease could make the difference.
I married a chef, some of the crap that goes on in professional kitchens would surprise you, even if they are technically foodsafe.

Possible, I'll admit.

hmm, soy and that bacon spice mix...

You mean...Bacon Salt?

if by politics your talking about noone wanting to foot the bill, then your right.

basically, the farming efficiency we have right now means that if things where not so market focused, one could feed everyone on this planet. But as its so market focused, some throw away stuff they bought but never got round to eating, while others starve, just because they do not happen to have some pieces of metal or paper that those that have the food wants in return...

have a bacon flavored cookie

btw, anyone familiar with the gits:sac episode where they talk about korean vegetarian food? Something about monks finding ways to make plants appear like meat or fish. ii think the same episode touched on cyborg food and how it was made to look like the usual stuff when in reality it was more like nanotech repair/maintenance kits or something.

Still working on making tofu and baconsalt texture like bacon, almost got the taste mix worked out.
Once I've got that I'm running to the patent office with a machine that can put out a continuous ribbon of bacon. I shall be a millionaire!

not enough to deep fry it?

There's dried bacon bits actually made from soy that you can get in most american supermarkets. My husband is Jewish so no pork for him but these he can eat for the flavor when I need it.

I have to quote something here.
"Broccoli tastes like broccoli, but meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty darn good now doesn't it?" - Dennis Leary

You may proceed.

i wonder if its much the same as found here in norway. It has a consistency fairly similar to cheese curls, but shaped and flavored to appear like bits of bacon...

What you're looking for is phytoestrogen - it's not literally human estrogen, but an estrogen-like chemical which confuses the body. Studies have shown it has strange effects on women, especially during menopause, and there are serious medical concerns when consumed in large quantities by children or pregnant women (resulting in earlier puberty in girls, and slightly reduced er... maleness in developing boys. However, assuming you're eating in non-crazy quantities, it should not have any real effect on full-grown men.

If you would like to know more, google 'phytoestrogen soy' and read.

Fortunately, in the US, corn is our staple of choice, which has its own problems, but phytoestrogen is not one of them.

Soy-chicken is awesome ! Just like chocolate coated bacon !