Posted on 12/01/2023 7:17:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
… Eating more plants and fewer animals is among the simplest, cheapest and most readily available ways for people to reduce their impact on the environment, climate scientists have long said. According to one University of Michigan study, if half of U.S. animal-based food was replaced with plant-based substitutes by 2030, the reduction in emissions for that year would be the equivalent of taking 47.5 million vehicles off the road.
An explosion of new types of plant-based “meat” — the burgers, nuggets and other cuts that closely resemble meat but are made from soybeans and other plants — is attracting customers all over the world. Between 2018 and 2022, global retail sales of plant-based meat and seafood more than doubled to $6 billion, according to Euromonitor, a market research firm.
Still, that’s dwarfed by global retail sales of packaged animal meat and seafood, which grew 29% in the same period to $302 billion.
And sales have been uneven. While demand for plant-based meat is growing rapidly in some countries like Germany and Australia, sales have flattened in the U.S.
Colorado-based Meati makes chewy, fibrous steak filets and chicken cutlets from mushroom roots. Its chicken cutlet has fewer calories, less cholesterol and nearly as much protein as animal chicken.
Meati collects spores from mushroom roots, feeds them sugar and ferments them in stainless steel tanks full of water. In four days, a single microscopic spore can produce the equivalent of a whole cow’s worth of meat.
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Cattle are very ‘green’.
Cattle are best raised in wet, green grass areas like the UK and Netherlands where water vapor most effectively drowns out the small greenhouse effect of a small amount of bovine methane.
To move to a more plant based diet will require expanding agricultural production. However, the climate change cult wants to ban fossil fuels, the very means of agricultural production. Modern agriculture runs on diesel fuel that powers tractors that plant crops, combines that harvest crops and large trucks that haul crops to market. There are not even prototypes of electric farm equipment and it begs the question where would battery powered farm equipment get recharged in the middle of a field in rural areas. Forcing a greater plant based diet while banning the fuel to produce those foods would mean mass starvation.
What nonsense.
Every study ever done on food and health shows the same pattern
The more processed a food is, the worse it is for you overall. Doesn’t matter if the original food is plant or animal based, the more processed it is, in any way, before it is consumed by humans the worse overall it is for your general health.
There is few if any food more processed than these “plant based” meats. Scientists figured out a LONG LONG time ago how to make plants taste like meat... the found if you grew mushrooms for example in soil irrigated with cow blood you could create a mushroom with meat tasting properties. However, this isn’t what these modern “plant based” meats are.
These are some of the most insanely processed foods on the planet, and there is no proof that they are actually any healthier for anyone than eating meat, and honestly given how processed they are, I would lay odds if any long term studies were actually done you would find them to be more harmful.
These fake meets had the 15 minutes of hype, and like all fads have died, and deservedly so... but that won’t keep these folks from continuing to push them.
fake meat
the fake solution to a fake problem
im sensing a theme
“Who buys this nonsense?”
Hopefully, ‘people of color’ in countries with hydrocarbons that governments of Western countries want to be priced less.
I’ve tried the Impossible Whopper at Burger King.
I thought it was fine - both texture and flavor.
Of course, it got me wondering if the grill cooks in the kitchen were frying the plant-based burger on the same griddle. it would likely soak in some of the flavor from the regular meat patties.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Imbeciles.....
A cow is a plant based meat!
Demolition Man was prophetic....
I’m the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of BBQ ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and buskets of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?
I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.
Kind of like saying “EVs will save the planet—if people would buy them”.
No. The cow eats grass. Ergo, beef is plant based.
Your meme is factually incorrect. Outdoor cats eat bugs. Lots of them. They’re quite good at it.
Uh, nope!
Lol. Have you looked at the ingredients to this oxymoronic plant based meat? More additives than you can shake a stick at. No matter how it tastes it will still kill you. Every vegan I know has health problems.
There is a display stocked with plant based “meats” and “chicken nuggets” in a local supermarket. It just sits there and rots. Even the liberals don’t but it. Burger King took a huge loss and lost market share when it tried to promote this stuff to its customers.
I have eaten excellent fake meat that I liked better than real meat, but it was soy-based (hormone-disrupting) and probably toxic.
It will be hard to convince me that any fake meat is not toxic after all the lies we have gotten from bureaucrats and industry.
Cholesterol is only found in animal products. Plants have zero cholesterol. If their product just has less cholesterol, it means they are adding something to it.
Like bugs. Bugs are high in cholesterol.
“Meati collects spores from mushroom roots, feeds them sugar and ferments them in stainless steel tanks full of water”
Mmmmm, can’t wait to sink my teeth into that.
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