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Please tell me how this horrificly over processed fake meat is any better than the soy'd, GMO monstrosities that we already have today?

Vegans need to stop making imitations and make creations of their own. Vegan steak, please. How about a 4 day cured and smoked watermelon?

https://www.foodandwine.com/ne...

A few years ago, farmed salmon was about $5/lb, while wild-caught salmon was around $10/lb. Last year, the price of farmed salmon started rising precipitously. By the end of the year it was all the way up to $9/lb. I did a little research into why, and it's because of disease and parasite problems they're having in salmon farms killing off a lot of their fish.

The difference is a catfish or trout farm is entirely landlocked. They dig a bunch of trenches on land, fill them with water, and raise the fish in there. The waste products and any disease or parasitical infections are contained within the singular trench.

Salmon farms OTOH are mostly just nets in open water, typically at the mouths of fjords and rivers. The waste products (which include antibiotics) and any disease or parasitical infections are free to spread into the water and to other fish, including wild salmon going down the river to reach the ocean. Basically, salmon farms have externalized some of the clean-up costs associated with landlocked fish farming, by having their farms open to the water to wash the waste products out to sea. To the detriment of wild fish which happen to pass nearby.

Salmon is a fish I definitely recommend you buy wild-caught (preferably hook-and-line) rather than farmed. Especially now that the price of wild-caught is just a little bit more than farmed. Most wild salmon come from Alaska or the Pacific Northwest, which are both extremely well regulated. Or buy farmed rainbow trout/steelhead instead. It's the same thing. Rainbow trout were originally classified as trout based on geography. But in the 1980s DNA tests showed they were more closely related to the Pacific salmons. They were subsequently moved from the genus Salmo (which includes trout and Atlantic Salmon) to Oncorhynchus (the Pacific Salmons). So for North Americans, rainbow trout (a steelhead is an ocean-going rainbow trout) is more of a salmon than farmed Atlantic salmon, they just retain the trout name for historical reasons. And the orange/pink color of farmed salmon is artificial anyway. Wild salmon get the orange/pink color from the shrimp they eat, same as flamingos. Farmed salmon have the chemical added to their feed. It doesn't affect the flavor, so grey farmed trout is the same thing.

I'm skeptical that there is a labor shortage. Simple supply and demand rules of economics tells us that if there is a labor shortage, then the price of labor should increase.

The thing is, the real world is anything but simple. The last 40 years has seen a major consolidation in the number of employers (all those corporate mergers justified by saving money on labor costs) along with bullshit like non-compete clauses and no-poaching agreements for even lowly fast-food jobs.

The end result is increasing monopoly power for employers, allowing them to hold down wage growth independent of any changes in the labor market.

Yup. And actually the recent kerfuffle with Keurig shows the same thing.

Media Matters called up Keurig and convinced them to pull advertising from Hannity because he was, according to Media Matters 'pro child molestor'. None of which was true of course.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/...

So Keurig pulled their ads. Of course at that point the right started a 'boycott Keurig' campaign, with videos of people smashing their Keurig machines. Though as Ben Shapiro pointed out - smashing a machine you already own doesn't make any sense. All you need to do is stop buying K cups from Keurig.

Now in the long run this means that companies will either be Democrat companies or Republican ones. Up to now that hasn't happened. E.g.

http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx...

Experian assigned number values to restaurants, with 100 representing neutral territory. That means that a restaurant that scores 120 on the liberal index boasts 20 percent more liberals at its tables than average. The numbers aren't all that surprising. California Pizza Kitchen brings in the most liberals, with a score of 146 on the lefty index. O'Charley's-a chain located throughout the South and Midwest-and Cracker Barrel have the most conservative clientele, scoring 121 and 118, respectively, on the righty index.

I live outside the US and CPK used to have a branch near me and I used to quite like their salads, despite being politically conservative. If I was in the US I'd have gone there too. However suppose CPK took a political stand I didn't approve of. Then I'd eat somewhere else.

Companies don't realise that as soon as they take a political position they will please about half the people and alienate about half. However the people they please are not going to shop their more and the people they alienate can easily shop somewhere else. I.e. companies taking an open political stance is a net loss.

People who don't realise this are spending too much time inside an echo chamber were everyone things their politics are virtuous and the other side's politics are evil.

There are some high profile chefs who have complained about having their recipes 'stolen' and are pushing for copyright on recipes. Never mind that they wouldn't be allowed to boil an egg if that was the case as the recipe would belong to some copyright troll...

Of course pie can be square, or even non-regular rectangles. Granted they're usually round but that doesn't prove anything.

Shepherd's Pie:
http://simplyrecipes.com/photos/shepherds-pie.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_BizpeaUzxq8/S4wrazE1lWI/AAAAAAAABvg/9NTnF3iPNbw/shepards-pie.jpg

Pot Pie:
http://blog.sanuraweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ChixPotPie_0007.jpg
http://www.foodandwine.com/images/sys/201004-r-turkey-potpie.jpg
http://www.jannorris.com/whats-cooking/chicken-pot-pie-recipe-from-set-the-table-diabetic-key-lime-pie-in-todays-sentinel/

Apple Pie:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/3063024748_7d252abc83.jpg

Errm, not science fiction actually as some chefs are doing this (patents even): New Era of the Recipe Burglar

No-one seems to mind that people copy recipes - they're not covered by copyright even.