Article about more non meat foods being created (soy, mcdonald, cuisine)
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We've experimented a bit with Beyond Meat, a product described in the article, and I would agree with the assessment that it has room for improvement. Really, though, I've found that the most satisfying vegetarian meals for our family are those that do not include meat analogues at all. They are simply plant-based meals and are enjoyed as such without any pretense.
^ I agree with you, we rarely use store bought analogs because they aren't all that healthy, and mostly soy based. We make our own at home if we feel like it.
However, if more people ate meat analogs vs actual flesh of a brutally rendered animal who is a victim of a nasty industrial food processing machine, their health and that of the planet will be better off. I have a crazy, out there radical belief that we will only achieve peace on earth when we all stop eating other living animals. (silly me…)
Wasn't there some company a while back that was going to grow pork in a lab?
I actually do think that in vitro meat is eventually going to replace traditional meat and is probably the most realistic prospect for a relatively moral widespread food culture. Costs must come down, and quality must go up, but it's perfectly moral and has the potential to be indecipherable from real meat.
As a meat eater who appreciates food for what it is, I do not appreciate meat analogues. If I don't want to eat a hamburger, that does not mean I want to eat a fake hamburger. Give me a delicious dish that is simply made without meat.
And if the creators of these foods are motivated to reduce the amount of meat consumed, do so by creating appealing meatless cuisines rather than "seducing" consumers with artifical, processed foods made in labs.
If half the scientific effort and talent that goes into recreating the taste and texture of a fat-sheathed tendon running through faux muscle was instead turned to something productive, we would be ahead of the game as a society.
I'm not a vegetarian though I eat more of that then meat.
To me the meat substitutes are the equivalent of a vegetarian McDonalds. Heavily processed and full of salt.
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We've experimented a bit with Beyond Meat, a product described in the article, and I would agree with the assessment that it has room for improvement. Really, though, I've found that the most satisfying vegetarian meals for our family are those that do not include meat analogues at all. They are simply plant-based meals and are enjoyed as such without any pretense.
Same here. I have no interest in any of the fake meat products. I like legumes and am fine with them as a protein source.
As a meat eater who appreciates food for what it is, I do not appreciate meat analogues. If I don't want to eat a hamburger, that does not mean I want to eat a fake hamburger. Give me a delicious dish that is simply made without meat.
And if the creators of these foods are motivated to reduce the amount of meat consumed, do so by creating appealing meatless cuisines rather than "seducing" consumers with artifical, processed foods made in labs.
If half the scientific effort and talent that goes into recreating the taste and texture of a fat-sheathed tendon running through faux muscle was instead turned to something productive, we would be ahead of the game as a society.
Lab-grown meat is meat, though. It is not a meat analogue. Rather than appealing to people who "don't want to eat a hamburger," it would appeal to people who very much do want to eat a hamburger. The scientific effort that is currently going into in vitro meat is the best prospect for eliminating the consumption of traditional meat, which would be one of the greatest advances our society could possibly make.
There are many appealing meatless cuisines, but the number of vegetarians is still relatively low. If, however, in vitro meat was indistinguishable from traditional meat, and it was comparably priced, there would be no room in the market for traditional meat. The amount of suffering that could be eliminated by such an advance would make it one of the greatest achievements in human history.
If half the scientific effort and talent that goes into recreating the taste and texture of a fat-sheathed tendon running through faux muscle was instead turned to something productive, we would be ahead of the game as a society.
Yes, I lie awake many nights thinking about what might have been... if only all the scientific efforts of man weren't so darn tied up by this endless, all-consuming drive to make newer and better fake meats. WHEN OH WHEN WILL IT END?!
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