chemicals don’t make plants into meat just like operations don’t make men into women.
Plant based meat, is not meat. It is meat simulacra. Like soy bacon bits. Calling it plant based meat other than being wrong on a purely pedantic level lends it too much validity. If you like meat, eat meat. If you like vegetables, eat vegetables. But don’t tell others what they can or cannot eat based on your own set of choices. Some Vegans and vegetarians want to tell me how to live my life. Ain’t happenin’.
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It’s beyond me how anyone could eat that tofu crap.
The good thing is that if fake meat becomes popular, the price of real meat will be moderated by the competition.
But still, which is more natural, meat from a real cow, or meat from processed chemicals made in a factory? It's weird the extremes that people will endure in order to virtue signal. But no longer can the frauds lay claim to the term natural.
Beef is natural food. Chemical processed patties are unnatural. In prison they serve it as punishment and call it "health loaf".
Beef. It’s what’s s for dinner! Burp!
I eat “plant based meat”
I raise cattle, the cattle eats plants and I eat the cattle.
Yummm. I want another helping of my “impossible” meats
Beyond doesnt have soy, which is important for men who want to stay men. But it doesnt taste like meat compared to Imposible.
Impossible tastes more like meat because they use heme in it and that is what makes it taste like meat.
If Beyond would put heme in their prodct it would be superior for guys, no soy, and wouls then taste like meat.
No matter how many simulated burgers they dream up, the fact is certain vital amino acids can only be obtained by eating meat. There are no plant-based sources for these, therefore all vegans are malnourished.
Why is there so much hype around “Beyond Meat”?
Is it substantially better than the fake meat that has been pretty good for at least 20 years?
It sounds like a scam.
So get this, out West we have the Del Taco Chain of fast food Restaurants. For the last few years they had Turkey meat Tacos. The wife and I liked them, they were obviously more healthy than ground beef and tasted more or less the same. The price was a tiny bit more if I recall.
Six weeks ago they introduce the Beyond Taco. I guess Corp. figured their Franchisees couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time so to make room for Beyond meat they scraped Turkey. The Beyond meat Tacos with cheese have more fat and calories than the equivalent size Turkey Taco and they gouge you a dollar more for it. $2.50 for the four bite thing. For the full on freak Vegan there is a second version where they dump the cheese and add Avacado which gets you slightly better fat/Cal numbers than the long gone Turkey version.
I went out of my way for what little it was worth to log onto their website and give them hell. A few days later I received an email to take a questionnaire. It was General questions until the last one. Are you going to try the Beyond Tacos? Unfortunately FRICKING HELL NO wasn’t an option.
Not fit for human consumption, IMO!
I’ll stick with eating meat & drinking water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9dpgMbAd0c&t=2108s
Why would a true believer vegan want to eat anything that tastes like meat?
Especially a highly processed and unhealthy product?
I find it amusing that many vegetarians/vegans claim that eating meat is unnatural, yet companies make billions from the sale of fake meat.
I’d try it. I will eat a Portobello mushroom sandwich in lieu of a hamburger from time to time, and not for health reasons. I like mushrooms. If veggie meat substitutes taste good, great. In principle, once the supply chain is developed and economies of scale are realized, they should also be much less expensive, since animals are relatively inefficient mechanisms for turning vegetable proteins into something tasty. I have no objection to cutting out the middleman.
“Poised to reach $100 billion”...”in 15 years”.
Bwahaha!
There’s only this brief description of the product, all else is about market shares and chaff.
“Beyond Meat’s ingredients are common and accessible. The proprietary aspect of the process is the protein blend that Beyond Meat’s scientists have worked to develop. The accessibility of the equipment and the inputs poses a risk for the company as competitors start to ramp up and the plant-based space becomes more popular in the food industry.”
Ah, finally we get to, sort of, the meat of the matter...”inputs”.
“Say waiter, how are the “Input Specials” tonight, fresh?”
“Aged air dried choice “Inputs”, sounds delicious. Make mine medium rare.”
The first generation who drank soy milk from birth is a little different. As an endocrine destroyer, it appears to have done its job. Women have penises.
The bioavailability of particular essential nutrients in plants is poor.
Why would i choose that manboob garbage?
There is no such thing as “plant based meat”. No wonder the world is so screwed up, people just lie outright and no one bats an eye