, the results of the latest official Shanghai-focused survey on residents' diet and health offered an unsurprising conclusion: our diets aren't great. The number one recommendation for improvement attached to the report was also a no-brainer: we need to adopt a more plant-based, whole foods diet, while reducing our consumption of livestock and poultry. Enter Dao Foods, a new Chinese firm attempting to bring non-animal, "clean meat" alternatives to the market. SmSh talked to them via email about who they are, what they plan to achieve in China, and how they intend to convince the most populous (and pretty carnivorous) nation in the world to eat clean.