Never been a better time to try meat alternatives like Quorn or Impossible, which likely will be far less risky compared to unregulated Upton Sinclair meat 2.0.
Especially Quorn, which is made in Ireland and thus has to pass EU safety inspections.
Impossible has been harassed with shady recall and regulatory practices lately. I can hardly find their products anymore and they used to be everywhere where I shop.
Farther down in another comment, I point out to another user that the ingredients of Impossible beef are quite mundane and not at all concerning. Here’s the ingredients list for Impossible Chicken nuggets:
None of those jump out as particularly unhealthy or dangerous to me. The Soybean oil probably isn’t the best for you due to not being expeller pressed, but otherwise, nothing that would kill you.
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.
Never been a better time to try meat alternatives like Quorn or Impossible, which likely will be far less risky compared to unregulated Upton Sinclair meat 2.0.
Especially Quorn, which is made in Ireland and thus has to pass EU safety inspections.
Feom what I can tell vegetables have been a lot more problematic recently. Though I’m just going from headlines.
This is how you drive people to eat fast food.
I guess someone missed the deadly onion issue with Wendy’s recently
That’s an unprocessed vegetable. Get rid of them.
Nothing but chemical filled junk for the filthy peasants!
Don’t conservatives hate the fake meat industry? They will go for that and make it illegal next probably.
Impossible has been harassed with shady recall and regulatory practices lately. I can hardly find their products anymore and they used to be everywhere where I shop.
Especially those meat alternatives are in danger. Have you ever looked up the ingredients and especially the chemicals put into a “vegan nugget”?
Any industry now f-ing up one chemicals’ purity and safety can really do a number on a lot of people who thought they took the safer route.
Farther down in another comment, I point out to another user that the ingredients of Impossible beef are quite mundane and not at all concerning. Here’s the ingredients list for Impossible Chicken nuggets:
Water, Wheat Flour, Soy Protein Concentrate, Soybean Oil, Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Methylcellulose, Natural Flavors, Salt, Cultured Dextrose, Wheat Gluten, Yeast Extract, Yellow Corn Flour, Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spices, Leavening (Cream of Tartar, Sodium Bicarbonate), Dried Yeast, Paprika Extract (for color), Vitamin E (Tocopherols), Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B5, B1, B6, B2, and B12)
None of those jump out as particularly unhealthy or dangerous to me. The Soybean oil probably isn’t the best for you due to not being expeller pressed, but otherwise, nothing that would kill you.
I normally use methylcellulose to glue wallpaper to the wall.
But apart from that, a surprisingly clean list for such a product.
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I like this other meat alternative called vegetables, don’t know what the brand is though
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.
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.