World meat industry news

In the future, 10-15% of meat in Russia will be replaced by its vegetable counterpart, and sweets will be obtained using a biotechnological method. Sergei Ivanov, Executive Director, member of the Board of Directors of EFKO Group, spoke about this during an interview at the FederalPress Open Studio on the margins of Innoprom.

“If you develop protein on your own, if you have enough competencies to make aromatics, you can quite well make vegetable meat at the price of pork,” Ivanov is convinced.

According to him, now the global plant-based meat industry is just emerging, but the drivers for its development are both the lack of food and the growing popularity of ESG. For example, the production of a vegetable analogue requires ten times less water and land than the production of conventional meat. At the same time, four times less carbon is formed, the expert noted.

“It is important for today's youth to understand how what they consume affects the future of the planet,” Ivanov explains.

Another promising area in which EFKO Group works is the production of alternative sweets: they will taste not from harmful carbohydrates, but from healthy proteins. The technology for their production has already been developed by Russian scientists. As a result, sweets will turn from a treat into a full-fledged source of energy