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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."
It's weird... after having been vegetarian for 17 years, the concept of making a vegetarian burger taste more like meat only strikes feelings of "eww, gross" in me. And I imagine that's a pretty common reaction.
But I guess it's good for non-vegetarians and maybe people who are newly vegetarian.
On the upside, I imagine this product is a good source of iron, since heme iron is well absorbed.
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I think that such products are aimed more at meat eaters than long time vegetarians. I'd say that most meat eaters do it because they like the taste rather than because they want animals slaughtered, so offering something which tastes the same (and has similar or better nutritional values and isn't more expensive) would allow them to switch out of eating meat.
Unfortunately, all the substitutes that are made to mimic meat well are currently far pricier than actual meat. I tried a sample of a Beyond Burger a while back and it was pretty good, but on the shelf it was like 4 times the price of actual ground beef. That ain't gonna work too well. A plant based burger should cost LESS than the real thing.
I think that such products are aimed more at meat eaters than long time vegetarians. I'd say that most meat eaters do it because they like the taste rather than because they want animals slaughtered
No, they do it because that's how they were raised. People's "tastes" form at a young age.
(not seeing the slaughter also helps, I think if a few more kids saw an animal being killed it would make a big difference)
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I think in general, people who grow up with frequent contact with slaughtering do not mind it, but people who only encounter it a few times but it is otherwise not a part of their world have trouble with it.
It is kinda like, for lack of a better comparison, slavery. People who grow up around slave labor see it as normal, and people who are insulated but benefit from it see it as too abstract but useful to worry, but people who live in countries that do not have it but travel to one that does and witness it tend to come out more strongly against it.
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You're modded funny but it's just true. No human being naturally wants to live a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. It's just sad fucks with mental issues who want to self-flaggelate over some perceived wrongdoing they see in everyone else, so they can feel better about themselves. It's utterly pathetic.
It is kinda like, for lack of a better comparison, slavery.
I think that's quite a good comparison.
Being accustomed something doesn't make it natural or good.
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Resulting in massive increases to the rates of pesticide use and fertilizer runoff that is killing waterways and oceans.
As it turns out, trying to support billions of humans where 90% of them "hunt" their food in a supermarket or restaurant without having effects on the environment is hard.
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The other thought is that according to the "Least Harm Principle" a massive switch to vegan diet for society would result in far more deaths of small furry animals being run through harvester machinery than current deaths of large herbivores in slaughterhouses: https://www.morehouse.edu/facs...
Why is a cow's life worth more than a cute bunny's? Clearly we should be going for the least amount of deaths per human, which would mean finding a balanced omnivorous diet.
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Killing food isn't natural? Seriously? Nothing in nature kills to eat?
GTFO with that bullshit. I swear, some people have their head so far up in the clouds they can't even see reality anymore.