One of the most immediately obvious differences, based on what’s been publicly shown, between clean meat and the packaged product you buy at the store is taste and texture.  And make no mistake – those two features likely outweigh considerations of cost, ethics, and environmental considerations that would play into a consumer making the switch.  This is evident in the slow, yet coming-of-age progress in the plant-based meat industry, where Beyond Meat’s “bloody” beet-juice burger has been met with rave reviews.  So what’s being done to address these issues?