Clip: Season 8 Episode 6 | 36s | Video has closed captioning.
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.
Aired: 03/25/24
Amanda Anderson: America's histo with plant-based proteins starts around the time of Henry in the early 20th century.
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.
