Zero Hedge-
Over the past few years, plant-based meat substitutes have come closer and closer to mimicking the real thing, with brands like Beyond Meat having even sussed out how to create fake meat that “bleeds”.
But, as Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, after an initial boom, the company has rapidly come down from its peaks.
When push comes to shove there’s always Venezuelan Long Pig.
For a while you couldn’t avoid the stuff. It was pushed in stores and in restaurants. Now you have to look for it.
Not that I ever would.
I wonder how many restaurants took a hit from COVID and from stocking up on that garbage.
I’m waiting for them to make beef taste like broccoli.
Soylent [choose your own color]
Zero Hedge:
They’ll never be close enough for me. I do like plant-based sides, though, like asparagus or green beans or fried green tomatoes along with my buttered and bloody rib-eye.
the fake meat that is ‘grown in a lab’ is essentially a tumor
yummy
Vegetarians have been around for thousands of years. Companies worldwide have catered to them with plant based protein offerings for all that time. Even falafel is such. Up until the GMO frankenscumbags decided to wipe out animal consumption with their bleeding lentils, hundreds of great companies produced things that fit between a hot dog or hamburger bun, look like fish filets, etc, all to satisfy the cultural traditions of folks who may previously been meat eaters. It was never their goal to abolish meat consumption, just to provide the alternative that hundreds of millions on the planet desire. Sadly, these regular folks, making things just out of naturally occurring plant materials, have been hurt by the Frankenstein companies like Impossible. It’s just an alternative choice.
@MrLiberty — All those choices are a great thing, evidence of the wealth inherent in free market capitalism. What I object to is the current propagandizing (NOT advertising) trying to cram obnoxious foodstuffs down my throat, sometimes it seems literally. Especially bothersome is the withholding of data that I deem necessary for my informed consent, and a good example of that is Toby Miles’ comment: current lab-based meat products are based on so-called immortal cell lines grown initially from abnormal tumor growths. Ew.
If it is mystery meat it ain’t fit to eat.
“Meat Substitutes Still A Tiny Sliver Of US Meat Market”
Even if it’s a tiny sliver, it isn’t because of anything I bought.
Cousin Eddie:
I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don’t you, Clark?
Clark:
You’re the gourmet around here, Eddie.
Again, I am clearly distinguishing between those who have simply made meat alternatives from plants from decades and the frankenscumbags. But those who p8nt out the horrors of factory farms are also providing important information too. The water and land pollution created by CAFE farms is well documented. Being fully informed about what factory farms and their treatment of animals, as opposed to humane farms with responsible conditions, is as important as being informed about the genetic experiments they are conducting on these bleeding lentils burgers.
The water and land pollution created by CAFE farms can be terrible. As are the toxins in feed lot beef but I’d rather ingest factory farm pork or feed lot beef(assuming no alternative) any day over lab grown “meat”
Vegans and vegetarians are my heroes.
What meat they don’t eat leaves me more to BBQ.