Mad scientist Dr. Pretorius toasts Baron Frankenstein in “The Bride of Frankenstein” with the words, “To a new world of gods and monsters!” That world is coming true in the realm of food. We live among lab-grown meat, eggless eggs, and hamburgers and even ice cream made of vegetable matter. And now we have taken the next step.
In a piece published in “The American Mind,” anonymous Twitter user and author Raw Egg Nationalist (REN) reports that startup company Moolec has created what it calls “piggy sooy.” But this is no riff of a sweet love ballad from the ’50s. “Piggy sooy” is a laboratory chimera of soybean and pig.
This is not simply a “what if” experiment confined to a laboratory. Moolec fully intends to sell its “piggy sooy” to general (human) consumers. The Department of Agriculture has already given its blessing. The patent has been handed out. And that isn’t all. As REN says:
Moolec’s business model will involve selling the beans as they come, without any kind of refining: there will be no attempt to separate the pig-protein component from the rest of the soybean. They also want to license their product to other companies for planting, which of course they can do, because the product is patented.
In other words, there may come a time in the future when the common soybean is no longer available, only “piggy sooy.” You will eat the pig-plant, and you will be happy!
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