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The World of Meat Substitutes

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Part four of DW's series on meat and its alternatives looks at the industry racing to replace the taste of animal flesh. NASA climate impact researcher Cynthia Rosenzweig explains why diet change is as urgent as cutting cars and flights if the world wants to hold to 1.5 degrees of warming. The film goes behind the scenes at companies chasing that market from opposite directions: German meat producer Rügenwalder Mühle, which has built a plant-based line alongside its sausages, and lab-grown meat startups like Impossible Foods in Silicon Valley and Israel's Future Meat, backed by hundreds of millions in investment. Food scientists explain the technical problem at the center of it all, replicating not just flavor but browning, texture, and the sensory cues that make a schnitzel read as real, down to why a lab-grown cutlet that stays pale inside will not sell. Optimists praise the pace of innovation while skeptics question whether any substitute can truly match the original, and both get real screen time.