(highlight:: Why chicken is so cheap: creating custom equipment to scale plant-based meat production
Transcript:
Speaker 1
We want to get to price parity with the product that is subsidized by the government. We had to really think about how it's manufactured. Now, I didn't know this at the time, but Christy with her engineering background really looked at why is chicken so cheap? Of course, there's the subsidies, but also it is the processing.
Speaker 3
So most further processed chicken is done on equipment that was designed for every piece of that process. It's customized for it.
Speaker 1
Whereas in plant-based meat, we've been using what we call off-the-shelf, or like this kind of template equipment to produce the product, which means that it's not necessarily uniquely
Speaker 3
Suited for each part of the process of plant-based meat preparation.
Speaker 1
And so Christy has developed with the rest of our team patented equipment that addresses some of the current bottlenecks to making plant-based meat affordably. And we're currently building that equipment out to start producing our plant-based chicken using it. So I guess to circle back to what she meant by that, we don't know of any other companies that are addressing the equipment side of plant-based meat production by creating novel production Equipment that will allow for us to scale and make this product more affordable for everyone.)
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(highlight:: Why chicken is so cheap: creating custom equipment to scale plant-based meat production
Transcript:
Speaker 1
We want to get to price parity with the product that is subsidized by the government. We had to really think about how it's manufactured. Now, I didn't know this at the time, but Christy with her engineering background really looked at why is chicken so cheap? Of course, there's the subsidies, but also it is the processing.
Speaker 3
So most further processed chicken is done on equipment that was designed for every piece of that process. It's customized for it.
Speaker 1
Whereas in plant-based meat, we've been using what we call off-the-shelf, or like this kind of template equipment to produce the product, which means that it's not necessarily uniquely
Speaker 3
Suited for each part of the process of plant-based meat preparation.
Speaker 1
And so Christy has developed with the rest of our team patented equipment that addresses some of the current bottlenecks to making plant-based meat affordably. And we're currently building that equipment out to start producing our plant-based chicken using it. So I guess to circle back to what she meant by that, we don't know of any other companies that are addressing the equipment side of plant-based meat production by creating novel production Equipment that will allow for us to scale and make this product more affordable for everyone.)
- Time 0:08:50
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