Beyond Meat expands to new lab, where it hopes to concoct plant-based bacon and steak
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - "Slightly better Tofurkey."
The appraisal of Beyond Meat by an influential technologist hangs on the wall of company founder and Chief Executive Ethan Brown's office like a motivational taunt.
Tofu is the last thing Brown wants his products to conjure. If he's ever going to garner mass appeal for his plant-based meat alternatives, he's going to have to develop fake chicken, beef and pork that tastes and feels like the real thing.
"There's a lot of people who have created meat analogues out of soy that loosely mimics the experience of meat,"
