Posted on 10/24/2025 6:00:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
"....ultra-processed sludge" and especially, "there's one thing these billionaires never seem to understand: misery doesn't make people easier to control forever. Eventually, it makes them hungry for truth, freedom, and a real cheeseburger."
Freedom is quite tasty. More around this world should have it in their diets. Delicious, actually.
Seem to remember part of the French Revolution was about food....................
The cake will be ersatz too.
Yup, no fake food for me or my family.
hogwash “study” ... how about a fake meat study with a control arm of folks whose diets consists of typical fast food and junk food, say, who eat McDonald’s crap food several times a week, eat bags of Doritos and drink liters of soda pop daily ...
and no mention of the “new” ingredient that supposedly causes brain “inflammation” and depression ...
I'm suspicious of this conclusion. People who eat PBMAs do so to save money, thus indicating that at least a fraction are financially distressed which might also skew these conclusions that the "meat" caused the problem. It may be true, but such psychological studies are always fraught with the difficulty of isolating variables in human behavior.
I missed the secret ingredient twice ... please clarify for me.
“Fake Meat is People.”
New from the Soylent corporation.
It’s a wonder Bill doesn’t put his meat allergy poison in it
If you actually remember, then you're older than me! Arrgh! :)
This thread now inspires by its fine example the change in tonight's menu. Grilling steaks!
“Fake Meat is People.”
New from the Soylent corporation.
Ya you’ll never know who or what’s in those vats
Yeah, where is the “new ingredient” mentioned in the article? It’s not, so another clickbait article. The fake beyond meat crap sucks and is harmful for sure but these fake clickbait articles don’t help get out the truth when the headline is misleading.
That’s right, the key words being PART OF.
The article and study referenced do not use "secret." But the notion is that Plant-Based Meat Alternatives are less about physioogical issues, as emotional and mental issues.
"...while this study found no evidence of health risks associated with PBMA consumption, the increased risk of depression is concerning. Elevated CRP levels [ C-reactive protein ] in the PBMA consumer group suggest a potential increase in inflammatory status. Additionally, lower apolipoprotein A levels in this group, which are linked to reduced HDL, also raise some concerns. As always, the need to consider potential long-term effects when incorporating processed foods into our diet is essential and can be investigated in major epidemiological studies such as the UK Biobank. To validate our findings, additional longitudinal and experimental studies, as well as research in diverse populations outside the UK, are necessary."The article is interesting, for some. Probably a bit academic for others. My general take is that I don't care for marketing, messaging, nudging and the like, and especially from the likes of the Gates type folk.Source: Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Intake and Its Association With Health Status Among Vegetarians of the UK Biobank Volunteer Population by Hana F. Navratilova, Anthony D. Whetton, Nophar Geifman, 16 December 2024.
I suspect this is a case of reverse causality or "confounding." Researchers see cause and effect of eating fake meat >>> higher rates of depression.
Rather, I suspect vegetarians, particularly more radical ones who would seek out "fake meat" alternatives, have more mental-health issues to start with.
PBMAs are generally more expensive than traditional meat products (2x beef, 4x chicken and 3x pork) so their consumers aren’t doing it to save money. If they are, they may be depressed because they are bad at math. More likely they have other anxieties and issues that they medicate through eating PBMA. I’d be depressed, too, if I had to eat PBMA to keep the polar bears from dying.
To be liberal is to be depressed, angry and suicidal......................all at once.............
At what point in the article does the author tell us what is the “new ingredient” that has been “uncovered” in fake meat?
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