• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      Don’t conservatives hate the fake meat industry? They will go for that and make it illegal next probably.

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      Feom what I can tell vegetables have been a lot more problematic recently. Though I’m just going from headlines.

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        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 :)

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          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.

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            And the over production plus the addition of whatever additives are added to make vegetable proteins look, feel and taste somewhat like meat.

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              In the case of Quorn, it’s mainly Mycroprotein, a type of fungus that naturally grows into a meat-y like texture and has a neutral flavor that absorbs spices or vegan stocks really well. They do use a little egg whites as a binder, making it vegetarian, not vegan (unfortunate), but it doesn’t really have any nasty additives. It’s basically a fancy mushroom.

              Impossible Beef is definitely more processed, but there’s nothing in the ingredients list that stands out as particularly bad to me:

              Ingredients: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, 2% Or Less Of: Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), L-Tryptophan, Soy Protein Isolate,

              Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B1, B6, B2, and B12)

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        Gotta watch the veggies too. Vegetable crops on mass scale are often fertilized with liquid manure or liquified human excrement by spraying in the case of large farms near large metropolitan areas.

        Many areas that grow veggies also grow cattle and other animals which often pollutes with runoff, the water sources for vegetable farmers and meat farmers alike.

        No one is saved by this. Not the veggies or the carnivores. It’s bad all around. Quit infighting because you eat different food. You have a dictator controlling your government and courts.