AR-News: (UK/US)Meat substitute leads to beef

[Animalconcerns]

STOKESLEY, England - Refrigerated trucks trundle down the country lanes
laden with pale, doughy masses of fungus - 32 tons or more a day.

"Pure mycoprotein - good enough to eat, won't taste of anything, very
bland," declares manufacturing manager Pete Willis, tearing off a golf
ball-size sample from a 2,000-pound glob.

Workers in white boots shepherd the fungal paste through a sea of vats and
clanking machines that mix, press, slice and dice the raw dough.

What comes out at the end is a matter of perspective - luscious artificial
meat patties that taste just like moist chicken, or dangerous vat-grown
"vomit-burgers" that are sickening consumers from coast to coast.

The product is Quorn, a fungus-based meat substitute that millions of
Europeans have eaten for years. It entered the U.S. market in 2002 to rave
reviews by consumers, but was quickly met with a dogged anti-Quorn
campaign by an influential consumer group, the Center for Science in the
Public Interest.

Michael Jacobson, CSPI's executive director, claims that Quorn, which he
derisively terms an "odious" "mold"-based product, makes people ill - and
he wants every last nugget expunged from American soil. 

full story:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.journal22mar22,0,1253538.column

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