Posted on 02/08/2017 8:10:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
These vegetarian burgers taste, feel and even bleed like your typical beef patty.
Creators use heme — which is the same molecule in your blood — to make the patties "bleed." As NPR explains, "By taking the soybean gene that encodes the heme protein and transferring it to yeast, the company has been able to produce vast quantities of the blood-like compound."
Compared with their animal counterparts, these burgers require 95 percent less land and 74 percent less water. And they emit 87 percent less greenhouse gas.
When people cut back on meat, it can help the environment. But studies have shown only about 6 percent of Americans realize this.
And while some people will likely have concerns over their food being made in a lab, the burgers are free of hormones, antibiotics and artificial ingredients.
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There was another article on this stuff a few weeks back. A food critic tried one and was not impressed. I think he said it was better than a veggie burger but no competition for real hamburger.
There’s another approach that would seem more promising. Actual beef muscle tissue grown in the lab — no animal, just cells induced to multiply in a nutrient culture. Rather than trying to make plant material taste like something else, vat grown animal flesh hamburger should be indistinguishable from the hoofed variety. Yet since none of the energy that goes into it is used up moving an animal around a field it should be very efficient.
How you’d get it to taste like it came from a particular part of the animal is a mystery — how would a mass of cells destined for filet mignon grow differently than chuck roast ?
> Question is...how are they foing to eliminate 6.75 BILLION people?
Well Muslim ISIS members were going execute to execute their Operation Kill Whitey and Christians plan for Soros, Obama, and Hillary but that didn’t work out when Trump won the election.
I’m from Iowa.
Back in the 80’s there was a movie called “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” that made me for months stay away from any restaurant where I couldn’t see the kitchen.
Much worse than the TV show where the Chef Gordon Ramsay helps turn around failing restaurants. Some people who work in kitchens just ... shouldn’t.
then you know what the killing floor looks like too, eh? /
I helped raise hogs and grow corn and soybeans. I had a tractor license years before I had a driver’s license. Walked beans and de-tassled corn.
Ah, the new “Bleeding Burger”.
Can I have an ABC - “All Blood Combo”, with fries?
I cannot see an ad for “Friendly’s Bleeding Burger” or “McBleeding Burger with Cheese”. Definitely not a “Big McBleeder”
Maybe a “Transfusion Burger” from “Five Guys”.
I think I’ll try the “Dracula Burger - it bleeds all by itself. Igor, get me some fries and flies.
Just think what we could do with “Frankfurter”.
The “McWeiner”. The “Bleeding Heartdog”. “Frankenweiner au jus, Type O”.
#7. Re “How are they going to eliminate 6.75 billions people”>
Simple, one nuke at a time or a six/twelve pack for the larger countries.
ANYTHING that is pitched as “emitting X% less greenhouse gas” will NEVER get a cent from me. On my 0-10 importance scale, that’s a negative 10.
Corn fields are no fun in the heat...I remember very well...lol
I don’t want blood in my vegi-burgers.
That’s just another leftist paradox they’ll ignore.
Liberals get excited by GMO wheat but will eat some crap named “heme”?
It isn’t the blood in the burger that I crave, it’s the taste! I’ve never met a vegi-pattie that even remotely tasted like beef.
“How do they taste?”
With all the crap they pile on the bun it’s hard to taste the 1/4 lb patty.
I’ll keep doing my part for the environment by eating cows.
Okay I will try it.
If it tastes better than Bambi (white tail deer) taken on my land I will give it a go. I hope my dog likes it as I will probably need to throw it away after the first bite.
I hope I will be surprised, but I will not be.
I had a Bambi burger today. Low in fat. In fact Bambi is so low in fat one must add fat to it when processed for ground meat. A little bit of seasonal on it and cook on the grill. There is no better meat.
Relative to killing Bambi it draws out strong emotions from the anti hunting crowd. They are fools. Here in Texas the Game Commission surveys the deer population and available food dependent on rainfall. They issue enough deer tags to keep the population at its absolute best. Our Texas Game and Wildlife Commission and hunters are the deers best friend.
If the deer population becomes to large and then is followed by a drought it is very ugly. They become sick and starve and weak. The coyotes then take them. They take them alive. Ethical hunters and most of us are, kill quickly and humanely. We are the deers best friend.
Kudos to the Texas Game and Wildlife Commission. They do a great job.
GMO burger
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