Let’s return briefly to the fake meat hype cycle, now sitting somewhere in a dusty corner of your mind, not entirely forgotten. What happened to all those products, known as plant-based alternative proteins? They were supposed to be as good as real meat—cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and perhaps most importantly, kinder to animals. They are still among us, which is the important point, but without the hype and investor mania that once surrounded them. You can still find them tucked into a corner of the refrigerated meat case at your local grocery store. The fake meat hype cycle that began in the twenty-teens promised that the products would be different, that they were meat substitutes and would capture market share fro...