Plant-based meat products
Nov 12, 2020 08:11:44 #
PaulBrit
Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon
I’m 76. I am fit and healthy. Five feet, nine and-a-half inches tall and one hundred and fifty pounds weight. There is no question that especially in one’s older years diet and exercise are critically important. My wife and I have a pescatarian diet. That is vegan plus fish. I believe it is known as the Mediterranean diet. It’s great food.
Nov 12, 2020 08:23:28 #
If enough people buy those products, we will see more of them. Otherwise, they will fade away.
Raising cattle is environmentally disastrous, so cutting back on beef would be good for all of us.
Raising cattle is environmentally disastrous, so cutting back on beef would be good for all of us.
Nov 12, 2020 08:23:48 #
Vegetarians will really feel foolish someday lying on their deathbed dying of nothing!
Nov 12, 2020 08:29:43 #
PaulBrit
Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon
jerryc41 wrote:
Raising cattle is environmentally disastrous, so cutting back on beef would be good for all of us.
Well said!
Nov 12, 2020 08:38:06 #
Mix with beef ground meat [not lean] and cook with water added and the large texture soy is infused with beef flavor and made great chili. I have done this for years... mmmm good.
Nov 12, 2020 08:48:41 #
Nov 12, 2020 09:18:25 #
Bison Bud wrote:
There has been plant-based meat substitute product... (show quote)
I saw a report recently comparing the Beyond Burger with an equal size meat burger. Just about all the things good in one was good in the other and all the bad things in one was bad in the other. I think a lot has to do with people who don't like killing Bambi or Elsie the cow or any other living thing. For some reason they don't consider plants as living things!
Nov 12, 2020 09:26:23 #
That’s not why they’re pushing that crap. They want those of us who are mostly carnivores, to stop killing those poor animals. They are correct that mass butchering can be unnecessarily cruel, as well as unsanitary. For my part I buy organic when I can, because I am fortunate enough to afford it.
Too much red meat is unhealthy for many of us. Accept the possibility that you may be harming yourself, and make a choice.
My choice is to never eat soylent red.
Too much red meat is unhealthy for many of us. Accept the possibility that you may be harming yourself, and make a choice.
My choice is to never eat soylent red.
Nov 12, 2020 09:28:46 #
I am not out to be political, but mass beef production has several issues, including increasing deforestation of the Amazon, and it contributes to a wide range of other increasingly serious environmental problems. Meat production at this scale is not sustainable and industry leaders say this.
So there exists this effort to develop alternatives. The "Impossible" line of artificial beef being but one example. It is not necessarily healthier. The Impossible Whopper from Burger king is is essentially just as bad for you as the real beef whopper. It costs a little bit more, but I cannot tell the difference (!) Right now it is no threat to the beef industry, but I don't know the future on that.
This line of "meat" is proving to be very popular, commercially, and new products are coming out all the time because of growing interest. If you are against it, then you are not a capitalist.
So there exists this effort to develop alternatives. The "Impossible" line of artificial beef being but one example. It is not necessarily healthier. The Impossible Whopper from Burger king is is essentially just as bad for you as the real beef whopper. It costs a little bit more, but I cannot tell the difference (!) Right now it is no threat to the beef industry, but I don't know the future on that.
This line of "meat" is proving to be very popular, commercially, and new products are coming out all the time because of growing interest. If you are against it, then you are not a capitalist.
Nov 12, 2020 09:34:31 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
dpfoto wrote:
Cows eat grass, grass is a plant, therefore isn't beef plant based? Works for me!
And beer is vegan.
Nov 12, 2020 09:34:54 #
Najataagihe wrote:
Cost.
If the (fairly) new kudzu-burgers become accepted by the mainstream, you have a cheap source of easily-renewable food.
The problem will be keeping the kudzu farms under control!
If the (fairly) new kudzu-burgers become accepted by the mainstream, you have a cheap source of easily-renewable food.
The problem will be keeping the kudzu farms under control!
Kudzu...."The scourge of the South". I wonder if kudzu-burgers taste like chicken..??
Nov 12, 2020 09:36:57 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
sippyjug104 wrote:
Kudzu...."The scourge of the South". I wonder if kudzu-burgers taste like chicken..??
Whenever someone reports a rat got deep fried in a restaurant by falling in overnight, they always say it tasted like chicken.
By deductive reasoning, chicken tastes like rat.
Nov 12, 2020 09:38:10 #
There is a company, Else Nutrician Holdings Inc, that sells plant-based baby food. Interesting concept. See https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BABYF?p=BABYF.
Nov 12, 2020 09:47:59 #
LWW wrote:
Whenever someone reports a rat got deep fried in a restaurant by falling in overnight, they always say it tasted like chicken.
By deductive reasoning, chicken tastes like rat.
By deductive reasoning, chicken tastes like rat.
I like the way you think..!
Nov 12, 2020 10:25:26 #
Plant-based products, like "organic" products are nothin more than a marketing trick to get ignorant consumers to buy something that they ordinarily would not. Notice that the marketing never provides any ingredient information or nutritional value information that can be compared to the ordinary, and less expensive, alternatives. There is a reason for that! The higher priced and heavily marked organic/plant-based products are no healthier than the non-organic, non-plant-based products!
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