Vegan shrimp?!

[robert99]

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Move Over Animal Shrimp, There's A New Plant-Based Shrimp Coming To Your Table
New Wave Foods, a San Francisco biotech startup with backing from New Crop Capital and SOS Ventures via IndieBio, has engineered a shrimp product (a sustainable food) out of red algae and other plant-based ingredients that looks and tastes like animal shrimp.

Pound for pound, shrimp has a carbon footprint 10 times that of beef, and for every pound of shrimp fished out of the ocean, 10 to 15 pounds of other sea animals are caught and wasted. Farmed shrimp also has a huge environmental toll.

 

[Second Summer]

I've had some vegan shrimp in the past. (At the Boston VB meet-up in (I think) 2008.) So obviously a different product than the New Wave one above. Anyway, they were almost, but not quite, as disgusting as eating the actual animals.

 

[robert99]

I must admit I don't really like to eat copies of something I don't want to eat.

 

[Jamie in Chile]

Perhaps you'd agree though, that the existence of these products is a good thing, even if you wouldn't want one. I am not bothered either if I never try it, but it's an improvement on eating real live shrimp.