Fake meat moves beyond burgers with money for printing steaks

Printing 3D steaks may print money for the startups developing them, as the technology comes closer to replicating real, juicy steaks. — AP

Juicy sirloin steaks hot off a 3D printer are on the menu this year as the booming faux meat market bids to lure even die hard carnivores.

Israel’s Redefine Meat Ltd. is targeting steak houses and other restaurants in Israel, Europe and Asia with its 3D-printed facsimiles of beef cuts, from fillet to rump and brisket. The startup has just raised US$29mil (RM116.87mil) in funding to build a large-scale pilot factory and begin sales later this year, it said Tuesday.