Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test

assertation (1255714) writes "Bill Gates and the founders of Twitter are betting millions that meat lovers will embrace a new plant-based product that mimics the taste of chicken and beef. Meat substitutes have had a hard time making it to the dinner tables of Americans over the years, but the tech giants believe these newest products will pass the "tastes like chicken" test. Gates has met several times with Ethan Brown, whose product, Beyond Meat, is a mash-up of proteins from peas and plants."

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Watch Out for PETA

[Scarletdown]

Prepare to be targeted by an angry mob from PETA...

The other PETA, that is... People Eating Tasty Animals.

AND??

[Gavrielkay]

Peas and plants. Because now peas aren't plants? Who wrote that?

Re:Americans

[camperdave]

...though it's not a vegan product in any sense

Sorry, but to us carnivores, vegan means any substitution of meat for hippy-dippy, new age fairy food. The only thing you should substitute meat with is other meat; chicken or steak burritos for example.

Obligatory

[fiziko]

The cost of the alternatives: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip 3105.

Re:Obligatory

[__aajfby9338]

I'm still waiting for a meat-based vegetable substitute.

Re:A good visual why to move away from animal food

[Hognoxious]

And to respond to another comment: dairy cattle do get eaten, that's most of the hamburger you see. But they're just using it up, it's not considered very good grade.

Similar thing with wool sheep that are past it. They're edible if you cook them by the brick method: put a quarter of animal in a pot with a brick, water and a bay leaf. Boil.

When you can stick a fork in the brick the meat's nearly ready.