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Speaker 1: Air is now home to the biggest tofu production line

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Speaker 1: in the world, and after suiting up, are there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I got to see it.

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Speaker 2: This new line. It does about nine thousand pieces of

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Speaker 2: tofu an hour.

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Speaker 1: Nasoya plant manager Justin Lee says they turn out more

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Speaker 1: than two hundred and fifty thousand packages a day, thanks

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Speaker 1: in part to this brand new, fifty five million dollar expansion.

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Speaker 1: In total, the company makes an astonishing seventy percent of

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Speaker 1: all tofu sold in America. Ed Schwartz has worked for

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Speaker 1: Nasoya for decades and says their consumer base started with

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Speaker 1: vegans and vegetarians, but.

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Speaker 3: It has grown outside of that too. People who still

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Speaker 3: eat beef, but they want to eat a little bit healthier.

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Speaker 1: Despite a revival of red meat online and messaging from

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Speaker 1: US health officials, Ed says people eating more tofu is

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Speaker 1: all a matter of showing them how.

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Speaker 4: To use it, because you will get some people who

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Speaker 4: will look at the block of tofu and go I

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Speaker 4: don't have any idea what.

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Speaker 3: To do with this.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffle WBZ foshon Snooze Radio