They don’t even need government support. They just need AnAg based products to not be subsidized by our taxes, and they’d by ahead by a mile, price wise.
alternative proteins
alternative second-hand proteins.
https://awellfedworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Bean-Recipes-Ellen-Kanner.pdf
I’m Latino and went vegetarian. I just eat a shit load of beans now… Even more so.
I’m eating beans right now. I made some kidney bean “tofu”.
two avocado tacos with black beans and some cilantro lime slaw have 30 grams of fiber, too. You can get almost half a day’s worth of fiber from just a cup of black beans and they are no work to make if you have an instant pot!
I recently introduced Impossible burger for my family’s taco night and it’s become my kids preference. Price-wise, because my grocer refuses to sell exactly 1 lb. of beef they sell 1.15-1.3lbs for money grabbing), it’s only about a dollar more.
Well worth it! It’s gaining popularity for a reason. If it was priced evenly with beef, the meat industry would be sweating like they had the meat sweats.
Also tested long term for health effects. Don’t add more packed food in my fridge
Not sure why you’re downvoted…
I enjoy a fake burger from time to time, but if we are honest, then criticizing ultra processed foods should always be fair game. These fake meats should be eaten in moderation next to a nutritionally balanced diet of mostly whole ingredients.
More from the produce section and less plastic wrapped goods.
The downvotes are because the comment lacks a little context. Impossible meat isn’t around to replace vegetables, it’s around to replace ground beef, which is pretty generally regarded as not healthy to begin with. And adding to that, the other processed fake meat products (chicken nuggets, hot dogs, sausages, …) Are really just 1:1 swaps for processed meats.
My guess is at least 99.97% of people aren’t grinding their own free range antibiotic free chicken into a pulp, then stamping them into Dino shapes and breading them with organic flour, before frying them in hand pressed olive oil from their organic olive orchard.
Fake meats often aren’t great for you, but generally speaking, neither are the things they’re trying to replace.
They’re being downvoted because the UPF moral panic is being used to promote the meat industry, which is what this is in this context. They have entire ad campaigns for it, so this user’s comment is essentially repeating a Big Beef ad.
Exactly, don’t want my kids generation to find out they’ve been eating forever chemicals
Too late. At least in the US we’ve been spraying our crops with pfas while denying it, apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/23/pfas-pesticides-epa-research
I don’t have kids yet, maybe there’s still hope for the future
If you see the plastic scraps they feed pigs, you suddenly get hungry for vegan food.
Your hotdogs and nuggies are full of microplastics. Nothing is free of man made chemicals. Even growing your own veggies in your own backyard will give you pfas and microplastics.
Im not sure what it is, but does anyone else feel terrible after eating these simulated meat brands? Specifically ones like Beyond and Impossible trying to simulate the exact taste
Actually the opposite for me. Real meat has so much grease in it I often feel bloated after a burger. Beyond meat burgers are fine for me.
Ya feel much cleaner in the tum. First I’ve read of aches from Beyondpossible
Yup, I hate “beyond meat”, it also makes me feel bad. I much prefer regular veggie burgers at this point.
Interesting, I’m not even vegetarian and I really like beyond meat. It doesn’t taste exactly like real meat but it is so good in a different way and I get it like whenever I have a chance
Yeah I too am not vegetarian and like it. I don’t see it as a meat substitute, it’s just something I like eating. It’s more like a different type of meat.
I’ve eaten multiple a day (it has good protein) multiple times a week, coincidentally including the past two days, and it’s never made me feel weird. I just throw them on the stove as a quick protein snack and rawdog that shit two patties at a time. Kind of degenerate behavior but I like the way beyond tastes alone. I swear my food taste isn’t totally fucked, I eat normal things too
I think the beyond meat is mostly for non-vegetarians to see that you can get similar feel using vegetables.
Generally I would rather eat real meat or when I want something vegetarian just give me a bean/pea patty with some good spices in.
Yeah definitely. Weirdly I still like it, the flavor is more interesting to me than beef and it’s a lot easier to rawdog
I don’t know, I think it’s the mix and intensity of spices that they use, maybe?
And we agree on the idea. I’m not vegetarian but I’ve long decided that vegetarian-branded food should be judged on its own merits as food, not as “adequate replacement”. Like: is this veggie burger yummy, do I enjoy eating it? That’s the question, not “is it a good enough approximation to meat”. If I want meat, I’ll eat meat.
So (good) beef, chicken, veggie burgers: I like them because they taste good. Beyond meat burgers: I don’t like them because they make me feel yucky afterwards. That’s all.
I can eat several Burger King veggie burgers and feel fine while if I eat the normal whoppers in the same amount I will feel full and bloated afterwards.
no i love the beyond spicy italian sausages on a corn tortilla with some jalapeño mustard i would eat them every day if they weren’t so expensive!
I don’t remember why I don’t like beyond tbh, but impossible killed 188 rats to make their products if I recall correctly, it’s not even vegan. If it makes you feel sick, there’s no good reason to buy it - there’s lots of other options out there that taste good.
Apparently it’s debated whether the one-time killin’ affects the veganiciousness
Inclined to believe they do feel bad about it:
That’s hilarious, I guess its true what they say fanatics always starve.
188 is a crazy low number, you think they only killed those 188 and just let thousands of others infest their factory? Every food prep company is killing way more rats and mice, only caring about those killed for science is silly.
Beyond and Gardein, yes. Impossible not so much though. The first version messed with me in the same way, but the second version they put out hasn’t yet.
sounds like they need to get in bed with politicians damnit
I honestly don’t get the point of this. Plant foods taste great, I don’t need them to be further processed to taste like meat.
It tastes disgusting. If plant based meat is going to get ANY traction, food companies need to find a way to make it palatable.
I stand in the way by just sticking to my local farmers and butchers. But to be fair, it’s not just because of fake meat. It’s because of animal treatment by the food industry.
I applaude your resolution, but keep in mind that local and small scale does not mean cruelty free (even ignoring the part where they have to die). It’s certainly better than factory farms, but it’s not immediately good.
We don’t need parasite support for GMO frankenfoods.
All the foods that we eat are genetically modified, or at least genetically improved. We aren’t eating the same vegetables as our ancestors. We have genetically modified the plants and animals that we eat through millennia of selective breeding and agriculture techniques. This was all happening long before modern GMO techniques were even possible.
Hahahaha tell me you’re uneducated without telling me you’re uneducated
Food is so deep, culturally speaking. Many people have deep memories and positive associations with making meat dishes, and “forcing” plant based meats looks like the government intruding on that. It feels overbearing for a government to try and reduce eating of meat through any monetary means, even if it just means reducing / removing subsidies already in place.
It’s doubly worse because splitting meat eating through money means the rich can still afford and eat meat in plentiful ways, where the poor won’t be able to. This makes meat a wealth signifier (more than it already is), which can backfire pretty spectacularly.
In a policy sense, I actually have no idea how to limit meat eating. Even Carbon Taxes tend to have exceptions for beef.
