PALO ALTO, California-The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has been accepted by the European Union loosening trade barriers of all sorts of products and also of food and agricultural products. Under the new condition, the USA is allowed to export products without any restriction and even which are prohibited in the USA.
The Mongrosso Press has interviewed the founder of NI Patty Ltd., Allan McDermott, a startup producing patties from non-animal products. McDermott worked as a researcher at The Food Labor Research Center at the University of California. His main focus of research was developing a technique to transform sewage sludge into edible meat. McDermott was not able to sell these innovative patties because of restriction in the USA. Now, the European Union has ratified the agreement and paved the way to import more American products to the European Union.
"Just 2 years ago we were a small startup but now we are employing 50 people," says McDermott. "We are able to transform sewage sludge to edible patties. Mud contains a great deal of proteins and we extract the protein and combine it with a reaction enhancer, then let it explode to make natural-identical meat. 63% of the meat contains proteins making it a substitute of meat and it contains less fat so it is healthier."
After the dough is colored with food coloring and artificially flavored it is ready for the supermarket.
Under the new agreement, the sewage meat does not have to be labelled as such and can be sold as real meat in all European supermarkets. Sewage meat is strictly prohibited in the USA but Europe has no importing barriers anymore posing a huge chance for NI Patty to expand into the European market.
Maybe the next burger you will order might be a sewage patty. Bon appétit!
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