Oh, no, they don't, uh... they don't grow looking like meat. It's more like-- so. [He sits upright. It's Explaining Time. He is no expert on the processes involved in making meat substitutes, but he can try.]

They take the plants - I think it's usually beans? - and those get, uh, chopped up, or dried and crushed into a powder. And then they use... I don't know what they use, but there are some, uh... binding agents, for getting it all to stick together again? And if they use the right binding agents in the right amounts and... process it to develop the texture, it can kind of look and feel like meat.

--After it's cooked, that is, I don't know if I've seen any that looks like raw meat.