Posted on 08/15/2019 6:23:00 AM PDT by ptsal
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest producer of pork products, has set its sights on the plant-based market. The company, which is a subsidiary of China’s WH Group, announced the launch of its first meat-free range today.
The Smithfield-owned Pure Farmland brand mimics Beyond Meat’s and Impossible Foods’ “bleeding” plant meat products that have sparked a food revolution in recent months. Pure Farmland will launch with eight initial products including plant-based burgers, meatballs, breakfast patties, and ground beef style “protein starters”. Some of the items will also feature vegan cheese; a burger with dairy-free cheddar, and meatballs with dairy-free parmesan. It’s the first time a major U.S. pork producer has launched both plant-based meat and dairy products at once.
[snip]“We’re thrilled to announce the launch of this new product portfolio under our Pure Farmland brand. We’ve been exploring the alternative protein space, and have taken our time to get it right,” John Pauley, Chief Commercial Officer for Smithfield Foods.
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I imagine that synthetic meat will eventually become much more profitable than the real thing, if they can get enough people to eat it.
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Most likely it will be reserved for the little people while our superiors enjoy the real thing.
There is a photo on Forbes of the veggie product to be made into burgers. It looks for all the world like a brown colored deposit on a San Fancisco sidewalk
We have been warned for decades not to eat highly processed foods. Now they are saying it is good for us?
And why do such plant based “meats” taste like meat? If I want to taste meat I will eat REAL MEAT!
” “bleeding” plant meat products...”
LOL, that should trigger some Vegans.
i tried the new impossible burger from burger king and it had a lighter fluid smell to it to simulate charbroiling a bit too heavy...
i ate it after i ate a regular whopper... not horrible.
They should just go with calling it, soylent pink.
I always thought of myself as embracing technology. Love science, I’m an engineer. But maybe I’m a Luddite after all. Have no use for electric cars, do not use or like social media, and want to have nothing to do with simulated soy-lent meat, whatsoever.
How much of it is soy?
I have a vegan friend who eats "animal wannabe" burgers - never authentic animal protein. His skin and muscles are "spongy-textured", and he does not appear healthy at all.
Bleeding plant meat, mmmmm.
Sounds like stuff you wouldn’t even insert at the other end of the alimentary canal...
Pro Tip: Avoid any venue that refers to people as “source protein” or “protein starter”.
I just find it weird that clowns that complain about people eating “the carcass of a dead animal” shape their twigs and grass clippings into something that looks and tastes like the “carcass of a dead animal.” Very strange. Maybe if they shaped their “wind farm” fans into something that looks like a gas pump people would be more accepting of them.
“Have no use for electric cars, do not use or like social media”
I have been in the computer business for >40 years. I like computers. I have a lot of them. But I also like to know who they are talking to and what they are saying. That is why I do not use social media or a smart phone.
“The company, which is a subsidiary of China’s WH Group, announced the launch of its first meat-free range today.”
Given the Chinese love of pork, their huge population, their need to import so much food, and their problems with devastating swine diseases, I can easily believe that the Chicoms are moving towards substitutes like this.
Soylent Green can’t be too far away for them, either.
Beware of manufactured fake food. My relative the scrupulous vegetarian died young, massively overweight from vitamin/mineral malnutrition and soy intake—horrible for his Irish body type vulnerable to thyroid disorder.
This whole People eating dead Animals can be traced back to that Black Monolith thingy.
Before that we just foraged for Food like any other Animal, except the Panther.
I saw it in a Movie.
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