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.
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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.