Gotta watch the veggies too. Vegetable crops on mass scale are often fertilized with liquid manure or liquified human excrement by spraying in the case of large scale farms near large metropolitan areas.
Many areas that grow veggies also grow cattle and other animals which often pollutes with runoff, the water sources for vegetable farmers and meat farmers alike.
No one is saved by this. Not the veggies or the carnivores. It’s bad all around. Quit infighting because you eat different food. You have a dictator controlling your government and courts.
It’s easier to switch people to plant based meats than it is to cut out meat-like foods entirely and potentially abandon their cherished family or cultural recipes that involve meat.
It’s all plants in the end, after all, with all the climate emission and health benefits that brings :)
Sorry for the snarky comment, I just personally don’t see the need for meat shaped plant based products that cost 10 times what their ingredients would cost. To each their own though, still better than giving your money to the industrial meat industry.
As a personal anecdote, I would not have been able to convert my family to vegetarians without the help of these meat alternatives, as their traditional meat based dishes were very important to them.
So while costly, they are a valuable tool in furthering the cause, in my experience.
In the case of Quorn, it’s mainly Mycroprotein, a type of fungus that naturally grows into a meat-y like texture and has a neutral flavor that absorbs spices or vegan stocks really well. They do use a little egg whites as a binder, making it vegetarian, not vegan (unfortunate), but it doesn’t really have any nasty additives. It’s basically a fancy mushroom.
Impossible Beef is definitely more processed, but there’s nothing in the ingredients list that stands out as particularly bad to me:
Ingredients: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, 2% Or Less Of: Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), L-Tryptophan, Soy Protein Isolate,
Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B1, B6, B2, and B12)
I like this other meat alternative called vegetables, don’t know what the brand is though
I still hate that we’re in the stage of capitalism where kids will only eat fruit if you slap a sticker with a Disney character on it first.
Gotta watch the veggies too. Vegetable crops on mass scale are often fertilized with liquid manure or liquified human excrement by spraying in the case of large scale farms near large metropolitan areas.
Many areas that grow veggies also grow cattle and other animals which often pollutes with runoff, the water sources for vegetable farmers and meat farmers alike.
No one is saved by this. Not the veggies or the carnivores. It’s bad all around. Quit infighting because you eat different food. You have a dictator controlling your government and courts.
It’s easier to switch people to plant based meats than it is to cut out meat-like foods entirely and potentially abandon their cherished family or cultural recipes that involve meat.
It’s all plants in the end, after all, with all the climate emission and health benefits that brings :)
Sorry for the snarky comment, I just personally don’t see the need for meat shaped plant based products that cost 10 times what their ingredients would cost. To each their own though, still better than giving your money to the industrial meat industry.
No worries.
As a personal anecdote, I would not have been able to convert my family to vegetarians without the help of these meat alternatives, as their traditional meat based dishes were very important to them.
So while costly, they are a valuable tool in furthering the cause, in my experience.
And the over production plus the addition of whatever additives are added to make vegetable proteins look, feel and taste somewhat like meat.
In the case of Quorn, it’s mainly Mycroprotein, a type of fungus that naturally grows into a meat-y like texture and has a neutral flavor that absorbs spices or vegan stocks really well. They do use a little egg whites as a binder, making it vegetarian, not vegan (unfortunate), but it doesn’t really have any nasty additives. It’s basically a fancy mushroom.
Impossible Beef is definitely more processed, but there’s nothing in the ingredients list that stands out as particularly bad to me:
Ingredients: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, 2% Or Less Of: Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), L-Tryptophan, Soy Protein Isolate,
Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B1, B6, B2, and B12)
I’ll stick with beans and lentils thanks. But I am also a meat eater. Only what we raise ourselves and hunt though.