The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat

https://onezero.medium.com/the-fake-backlash-to-fake-meat-f53098bfb71b

by ericdanielski • 7 years ago

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xvx• 7 years ago

Chipotle giving health advice is a nice wrap to 2019. The company with continuous food poisoning outbreaks. The company where even the bowls are laden with cancer-causing chemicals. Pass.

dr_dshiv• 7 years ago

Great article that nails the issue about classism in food.

gatlinnewhouse• 7 years ago

Isn't the more prescient issue the use of lab grade plasma (or whatever is used in petri dishes and stuff) which comes from sheep blood? Wouldn't that be the location of any actual vegan/vegetarian backlash to fake meat?

Or does fake meat not use this material in its production? Maybe it is only used in researching fake meat?

dsabanin• 7 years ago

Do you have any sources for this claim? Why would they use petri dishes to grow GMO yeast?

teh_klev• 7 years ago

I would guess they're only used to research fake meat. As in, to understand the chemicals and nutrients that make up actual meat and give meats their properties. An example I suppose would be to understand the chemicals and reactions involved when cooking meats e.g. how meat browns when cooked[0] and then synthesise these chemicals from plant matter[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction

[1] https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189374...

spicymaki• 7 years ago

Chipotle already has a processed vegan product: Sofritas. By definition converting soy into tofu by coagulating and separating curds (protein extraction) and forming blocks means it is a processed food. Is tofu a bad thing?

If you use a little imagination, beef is a live processed food. You input vegetables and it gets converted into protein and fat. It is then extracted (slaughter and butchering) and can be further processed by grounding, dehydrating, etc.

ptah• 7 years ago

Does anti-GMO laws in EU countries prohibit Impossible Burger but not Beyond Meat

jiofih• 7 years ago

This article is so full of itself. Classism? Come on. Processed means many of the ingredients have been chemically extracted, the ‘heme’ made by GMO yeast, none of the ingredients make it to the other side even remotely looking like they started. This is very different from “stuffing plants through a machine”, which would be absolutely fine.

I’ll take a mediocre-tasting lentil or black bean burger over this plant-based goo any day of the week.

AdamJacobMuller• 7 years ago

I’ll take a mediocre-tasting lentil or black bean burger over this plant-based goo any day of the week.

Agreed, but, there are plenty of better-tasting vegetarian options (better than fake meat anyway).

The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat

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