An Israeli startup hopes to disrupt the vegan food market by developing 3D printing technology that will be able to produce meat substitutes using plant-based formulations, saying the final product very closely resembles the experience of consuming natural meat. Its founder says it has “replicated… the complex matrix that is meat.”

As Craig Sutton weaves his way through John Deere’s Technology and Innovation Center’s (MTIC) Additive Manufacturing Lab (MTIC) in Moline, Illinois, his excitement about advancements in the technology – also known as 3D printing – is evident.

A 3D center for the printing of cells, tissues and organs has been set up in the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to enable researchers to print complex tissues and improve their integration into human organs, the university said.

Eating a delicious and juicy steak without the looming and consuming dread of cows suffering in farms and what it means as a tool of patriarchy? Yes, please.