Hampton Creek Reinvents the Egg
The San Francisco startup has developed a plant-based substitute that's both cheaper and healthier than the real thing.
by Jason Ankeny
Jun 01, 2014
3 minutes
Modern Food and Drink
How we consume today
It doesn't matter whether the chicken or the egg came first. What matters is what comes next.
knows the answer. The San Francisco startup has developed a plant-based egg alternative that's both cheaper and more healthful, not to mention more humane. "About 1.8 trillion eggs are laid every year around the world, and most come from places that are destructive to the environment and pretty brutal on animals," explains Josh Tetrick, Hampton Creek's co-founder and CEO. "We've figured out a way to make food that is
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