Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution | Henry Ford
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Henry Ford, a vegetarian, was an advocate for soybean-based foods and products.
Although known as the founder of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford was also a vegetarian. Working with soybeans, he and scientist Robert Boyer invented a plastic car but also advocated and invented plant-based foods and products that changed the landscape of American diets and lifestyles.
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Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution | Henry Ford
Clip: Season 8 Episode 6 | 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Although known as the founder of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford was also a vegetarian. Working with soybeans, he and scientist Robert Boyer invented a plastic car but also advocated and invented plant-based foods and products that changed the landscape of American diets and lifestyles.
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Ford was a vegetarian and a huge backer of soy anything.
Like, check out his soy suit.
In the 1940s, Ford's food scientist, Robert Boyer, developed a way to make a fiber-spun soy protein product that was initially used for textile fibers like the suit, and then to make meat substitute Nadia Bernstein: Boyer patented his technology for protein spinning for food.
Another entity that licensed this patent was General Mills.
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