This café in Gurugram serves mock meat and that is the biggest upcoming revolution in the Indian food industry
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At a time when meat is being blamed for leaving more carbon foot prints than a return air travel of 1200 kilometers, there are lots of innovations happening in the food industry that could soon ensure less animal slaughter, thereby a greener world. Taking a cue from that Long story short
Mock meats are plant based meat substitutes, gastronomically engineered to replicate the flavor and texture of real meat but without harming animals and the environment. Mock meat originated in
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So why would you give up on animal meats? If the facts by verified surveys are to be believed, everyday around 153.42 million animals slaughtered. Going by the same survey, skipping non-vegetarian food for 1 day per week, it will end up saving around 7.97 billion animals from slaughter every year.
That is the volume of slaughter happening because of dietary habits. This validates how the meat industry is more polluting than the transportation sector (w.r.t greenhouse gas emissions and global warming) and how it is depleting our natural resources (1/3 of cultivable land on
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