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Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com)
The FDA has approved the key ingredient used in the vegetarian-friendly Impossible Burger. "The ingredient, soy leghemoglobin, releases a protein called heme that gives the meat substitute its distinctive blood-like color and taste," reports CNBC. The burger comes from a company aptly named Impossible Foods, which started raising millions of dollars in 2015 to pursue a plant-based burger that truly tastes like meat. From the report: In a letter to Impossible Foods released Monday, the FDA deemed soy leghemoglobin GRAS, or generally recognized as safe, in its most recent review. "Getting a no-questions letter goes above and beyond our strict compliance to all federal food-safety regulations," Impossible Foods founder and CEO Patrick O. Brown said in a statement. "We have prioritized safety and transparency from day one, and they will always be core elements of our company culture."
Why do we never see reports that steak is being processed to taste like tofu?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
I'd say that most meat eaters do it because they like the taste rather than because they want animals slaughtered
Speak for yourself. I eat meat exclusively so I can contribute to controlling the population of delicious animals.
If you just leave them be, they'll roam around eating all the plants until there aren't any left. Meanwhile carnivorous animals will have a near-endless food source readily available and undefended by humans, which will cause their population to grow exponentially. Soon we'll have to start hunting these dangerous animals lest they decide beef is too common and would much prefer some long pig for lunch. Then we'll end up with a pile of lion corpses that nobody wants, which will attract a shitload of pesky insects, potentially the sort that carry diseases, which will spread far and wide, spreading the next plague. Humanity will be wiped out in a matter of months, all because some people refused to eat their steaks.
Vegetarianism is just terrorism playing the long game.
Do you tweet your meat in public?
Just another day in Paradise
I do that as well and am discriminated against my way of life if I go to a vegetarian restaurant. I went to a steak house with a vegetarian friend and he was able to get something he liked. I went with him to a vegetarian one and I went out drunk, because I could eat nothing.
And as an aside, to me meat is basicaly processed vegetables. Some people like their vegetables cooked and then put on a plate. I just add an extra layer of seasoning.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
It is kinda like, for lack of a better comparison, slavery.
It's like changing your own oil. People who grow up around their parents doing oil changes see them as normal, and people who are insulated but benefit from it see it as too alien. In general, people who grow up with frequent contact with home oil changes do not mind them. For people for who only encounter them a few times, it is otherwise not a part of their world and they have trouble with it.
I can think of a couple of acceptable car analogies.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I didn't realize how conditioned I was to only eating meat that doesn't look like the thing that it came from.
Speak for yourself. When I go out for a steak I demand that they bring me the head of the cow it came from so that I can stare into its cold, dead eyes and remind it who runs this planet.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Why is a cow's life worth more than a cute bunny's?
Souls are distributed using a complicated algorithm that considers size, cuteness, flavor, and ability to act human. Humans get 1 full soul. Crickets get only a small fraction of a soul, making them fine to smash. Cows are much larger and cuter than crickets, but they're strongly penalized for being delicious and forfeit almost their entire soul. A bunny's life is actually worth MORE than a cow's based on cuteness and relative flavor. Dogs are a curious case in that American dogs have a larger portion of a soul than Korean dogs based on environment. It's not an entirely fair system, but it's what we've got.
Clearly we should be going for the least amount of deaths per human...
Start whaling?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
i hope so. otherwise he canâ(TM)t have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you donâ(TM)t tweet your meat?!
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!