The vege-bubble is turning to vege-bust
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I think a lot of exploitative economic activity is exactly like that. The scandal which is talking people out of their money is no longer a discrete and personal crime. It’s global-scaled. Also, I have not looked into the nutritional profile of fake meat, but now I wonder how many carbs… They promise the taste of meat, and apparently it fools many. But how close does it come to actually acting like meat in our bodies? The first three ingredients are water, mung bean protein, and brown sugar. Since we know from Diet Doctor that vegetable protein should be considered actually 30% lower than animal sources, that’s 7 grams of protein, not 10. Less than the carb count, which is 8! Slapping this junk together is cheap. Making it taste/texture like meat is the expensive part. Every step of processing has a climate change price. So I never fell for the lie that it was “good for the planet.” But I am certain “the plan” was to scale back the expensive part and not try so expensively hard over time to keep people buying this because it will then be cheaper. And the people in no position to know or do anything about it, much like the giant difference in eggs. The cheap eggs now have palepalepale yolks with little nutritional value, and watery whites that just don’t have the amino acids they should. DH and I remember what real eggs taste like and we pay extra to get real eggs. Others don’t have that advantage or knowledge. |
My son's girlfriend was here one night and she won't eat meat. She brought her own Beyond Meat sausages and cooked them up. They smelled utterly revolting and I wouldn't touch even a small bite. Give me the scent of a sizzling steak any day!
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We have Beyond sausage patties where I work. I've tried them, and they're weird. Their creators are definitely going for the hyper-palatablilty ingredients. You can taste all the soy sauce, sugar and salt. I had a weird reaction of, "this is gross, but I can't stop eating it." I honestly could have kept plowing through a whole pile of them.
I'll stick to our normal Hormel sausages, where the ingredients are basically pork, spices, and salt... and one is sufficient. |
"Add in worries over climate change, to which meat farming is a major contributor, and health concerns as well, especially for red meats, and there was a huge space for plant-based proteins."
No, meat farming is NOT a major contributor to climate change. No, meat, especially red meat, is NOT a health concern. I'm so tired of hearing otherwise intelligent people say they can't order a steak at a restaurant because they'd already had red meat one day in the past week. I have a friend who was telling me about her new air fryer from Ninja that also toasts and broils, etc. She cooked a whole chicken in it and said she knows chicken skin is "so bad for you," but it tasted so good. It's all the processed crap that is the issue. Give me my steak and you can keep your overly processed fake food. |
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More of the same ...
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After all, same ingredients as other bags of snack food. Quote:
The more I eat real food, the better it tastes. |
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Bravo, well stated. |
This morning I laughed for a while, just remembering the whole vegetarian push was helped along by Kelloggs and other Seventh Day Adventists. To destroy the libido.
But I don't think that would be a popular Youtube channel. :lol: |
Talking of Kelloggs:
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The cow fart/methane propaganda is pure Bull S___. People tend to equate methane with cow farts (though their burps are worse), but we may be pointing our fingers in all the wrong places, according to a new study. The production of ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than has been previously estimated for this sector. And that alone is more than what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates all industries emit across the U.S. https://gizmodo.com/just-one-tiny-i...pa-h-1835376030 Plus grasslands and cows feed each other. They cows eat the grass and the cows fertilize the grass. There is no need to add anything that mother nature doesn't provide. Farm that same land and you will need copious amounts of water, fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticide. All this propaganda about meat harming the environment is pure propaganda by corporate soy/corn companies looking to improve their quarterly profits. Remember, when the Europeans got to North America, there were trillions of bisons on the grasslands. More than anyone could count or even estimate. They didn't need extra water, fertilizer, herbicides, or pesticides and they didn't turn the atmosphere into a greenhouse with their burps and farts. When you are confronted with the big lie, please help spread the real truth. Cows on grasslands are much better for the environment than corn or soybeans. Bob |
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...20729173204.htm
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Imagine what they could do with something that actually tastes good to begin with. |
I find the whole vegan thing fascinating, since I sympathize with the humanitarian goals.
But I get angry because they can live in a fantasy world where our domestic cats and dogs "go vegan" with us and we all live happily ever after but there not a single fact in favor of this ever actually happening. Humane animal husbandry is the answer. But the vegans never go there. |
Just what we need at this stage, hyper-palatable processed foods that taste like meat.
"It turns out that the market is a lot smaller than some of the hype suggested." I'd rephrase this statement: It turns out that the market is a lot SMARTER than some of the hype suggested. |
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