Fake meat: don’t go bacon my heart, say butchers

  FRANKFURT, Germany -- Slicing through juicy cuts of pork belly alongside rarer delicacies of ox brain and sheep intestine, young butchers at a Frankfurt trade hall cast a suspicious eye towards the so-called fake meat products on display. Puzzlingly, for the butchers, the fake meat seems to be popular. "As a butcher, it just can't be that we have to get into plastic!" said Paolo Desbois, an 18-year-old French butcher, referring disparagingly to the synthetic burgers, sausages and nuggets at the IFFA meat industry convention. The concept that animals are meat -- and plants are not -- never used to challenged. But increasingly plant-based protein products are tryi...

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