The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?

A few things:

1. Cows are not optimized to make meat: Animals aren't a food factory. Animals eat other animals. We are animals and happen to have a wide variety of what we can eat

2. There are distinct benefits from eating meat (vitamins), in which it's incredibly inefficient from getting them from plants

3. The feedlots and environmental problems, that's an issue of our economy. Theres a particular expectation on output.

4. The impossible burger: The author is incredibly disingenuous about the comparison. He is trying to claim that the burger has so many bad aspects but completely ignores how ultra-processed the beyond burger is.

5. The author is completely obsessed on cows. There are MANY more alternatives to cows that you can eat.

Last time I checked, not all beef is consumed as hamburgers.

The alt meat craze (if there is one) is due to the novelty factor. The interest will decline over time.

That said, what does a raw Impossible Burger taste like? A raw hamburger?

Imagine wolfing down a raw one in front of a group of unknowing and terrified onlookers.

I may be cynic, but that is not sound good. If your net losses outpace your net revenue, no matter how good that meat is, you are not going to make it.

And, why did the share prices (BYND) fall since July 26? Someone exiting?

There is no such thing as "alt meat". Is a bicycle alt SUV? Or alt vacation for extra work hours? alt paycheck is a sub sandwich?

What is the point of trying to match what you are trying to eradicate?

So, where is the beef?

> 2. There are distinct benefits from eating meat (vitamins), in which it's incredibly inefficient from getting them from plants

Raising meat with today's common production methods (feed lots) is incredibly inefficient. In fact, a plant based diet can meet all nutritional requirements with just B12 vitamins. Many vitamins and minerals in meat and dairy are there because of supplementation, not because they're natural.

> 3. The feedlots and environmental problems, that's an issue of our economy. Theres a particular expectation on output.

Which is why plant based diets, both processed foods like these burgers and un/ lightly processed (beans, nuts, tofu and tempeh, pulses) are a solution. They can be grown much more efficiently than meat and take a huge load off of our environment and emissions.

> 5. The author is completely obsessed on cows. There are MANY more alternatives to cows that you can eat.

Cows are also some of the worst animal agriculture product emissions wise and a good chunk of the standard American diet. It's also definitely the star of these fast food restaurants he discusses that these plant based meats are aiming for.