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"It has as much to do with mushrooms as you and I have to do with salamanders," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. "We all know what a mushroom looks like. This ain't it."

His group has complained to the FDA about the label, and says the agency should not have approved mycoprotein without requiring more review of its potential to cause allergic reactions, because it has not been consumed in this country before.

Incredible. These people bitch and bitch about every cuisine there is, saying that this has too many calories, that hasn't enough fiber. Along comes something that sounds like an answer to their harangues, and the first thing they do is bitch some more.

It can only mean one thing. This stuff must taste pretty good.

"Incredible. These people bitch and bitch about every cuisine there is, saying that this has too many calories, that hasn't enough fiber. Along comes something that sounds like an answer to their harangues, and the first thing they do is bitch some more."

Yup. The most offensive part was their call for goverment regulation (with prohibition implicit, unless/until approved), "because it has not been consumed in this country before".

UFB!

Can't eat some food because it hasn't been eaten here before? WTF!!!

Argh, there goes my blood pressure for the night!