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Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
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Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#52Highly recommended reading is Sacred Cow book. It’s the most well researched, fact based, science based book thus far that is pro meat.
Impossible ingredients are pretty bad and aren’t that good for the environment either. Soy production is extremely destructive.
Here’s the list: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), Soy Protein Isolate, Vitamins and Minerals (Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12).
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I’ve switched to eating mostly vegan because most meat I used to eat was sort of just filler. If I go out somewhere and they specialize in something meat related and I know it’s going to be amazing, then I’ll get it. Eating lots of heavily processed chicken, cow and pigs just isn’t worth the many costs to environment, animal wellbeing, and potentially personal nutrition. I recommend everyone to consciously lo…
Where do you get enough protein to maintain muscle integrity ?
Vegan for 20+ years (now 40). I've never had any protein deficiency or any other nutrition related health problems. I weight lift so I take a scoop or 2 of brown rice/pea/soy protein which gets me to what any muscle gain diet guidelines recommend.
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#54Highly recommended reading is Sacred Cow book. It’s the most well researched, fact based, science based book thus far that is pro meat. https://www.sacredcow.info/ Impossible ingredients are pretty bad and aren’t that good for the environment either. Soy production is extremely destructive. Here’s the list: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Met…
What's bad about these ingredients?
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#55Highly recommended reading is Sacred Cow book. It’s the most well researched, fact based, science based book thus far that is pro meat. https://www.sacredcow.info/ Impossible ingredients are pretty bad and aren’t that good for the environment either. Soy production is extremely destructive. Here’s the list: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Met…
Do you have a good source on why soy production is harmful? I think the idea is that it's not AS harmful. Regardless of the land damage that soy production takes it's not as bad as the land needed for animals & the food to feed those animals.
Side benefit: also factory farms can totally be a source of another fucked up disease. They pump those animals with antibiotics and put them in bad environments a lot of the time.
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#56I've been using their meat in things like pastas and tacos and it's slightly tastier. The thing that hit me is that we consume so much meat in a heavily processed way that it seems silly a creature should have to suffer and die to make it. I'm all for aged steaks and prosciutto in moderation, but a large portion of the meat is consumed in nugget or other forms that don't really respect the sacrifice of the animal or…
As someone who grew up vegetarian and tasted meat afterwards, I feel it's hard for me to understand the attachment of people to meat. I was recommended to add some meat and eggs as a dietary measure along with supplements.
It wasn't as flavorful as I expected it to be. I liked Indian meat dishes a bit but if you substituted meat with tofu or paneer (cottage cheese), you wouldn't notice much of an improvement. Veggies certainly feel more flavorful combined with spices. Meat/tofu/cottage cheese only gives it structure. Although that might be the nature of Indian recipes.
Some substitution you can try for meat burgers:
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#57I imagine meat alternatives will really take off once they are cheaper than meat. There seems to be a lot of potential for cost savings if you don't need to raise a large animal to create the product. So far I haven't seen much of a cost advantage to meatless products, but perhaps with more funding this would be achievable. While I don't thing Impossible tastes better or even as good as the real thing, it isn't too f…
Impossible should lobby for a carbon tax, which would skyrocket the price of meat, making their option more affordable.
Just to put some numbers on it, the UN has a report that puts the total average carbon emissions of beef production between 14 to 76 kg CO2 equivalent per kg of final product, depending on the region the cattle was raised in[1]. The 2019 RWCC act proposed a tax of $40/metric ton of CO2 equivalent[2]. That corresponds to a price increase of $0.56-3.04/kg or $1.20-6.70/lbs of beef. Right now, the grocery store by me has 100% ground beef at $4/lbs, so it would be an increase of 30%-167%. If we use the US specific emission numbers, it's a ~65% increase for a total of $6.64/lbs. For reference, Impossible's "burger brick" is about $8/lbs[3].
Of course, ranchers would likely adopt more efficient practices if an actual carbon tax was passed so this is probably an upper limit of the price increase in practice.
[1] http://www.fao.org/3/i3461e/i3461e.pdf
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I’ve switched to eating mostly vegan because most meat I used to eat was sort of just filler. If I go out somewhere and they specialize in something meat related and I know it’s going to be amazing, then I’ll get it. Eating lots of heavily processed chicken, cow and pigs just isn’t worth the many costs to environment, animal wellbeing, and potentially personal nutrition. I recommend everyone to consciously lo…
Don’t the impossible/beyond meats still have a higher environmental impact than poultry?
I can't seem to find any information about this, do you have a source?
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#59I've been using their meat in things like pastas and tacos and it's slightly tastier. The thing that hit me is that we consume so much meat in a heavily processed way that it seems silly a creature should have to suffer and die to make it. I'm all for aged steaks and prosciutto in moderation, but a large portion of the meat is consumed in nugget or other forms that don't really respect the sacrifice of the animal or…
Same situation here. For steaks and other things like that, I've moved to exclusively using a local butcher who has all of their livestock grown for them in small quantities on very small regional farms. For the other stuff, I can hardly tell a difference so have been using Impossible products. It kind of gives me the best of both worlds: kind farming conditions for the steaks/etc. and no farming conditions for the h…
There are only so many prime cuts, such as steaks, in a steer. Ground beef and sausages are what you make with the rest of that animal.
Re: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
#60Highly recommended reading is Sacred Cow book. It’s the most well researched, fact based, science based book thus far that is pro meat. https://www.sacredcow.info/ Impossible ingredients are pretty bad and aren’t that good for the environment either. Soy production is extremely destructive. Here’s the list: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Met…
Most cows are not grass-fed (too expensive, too much land required) and are therefore in cages being fed... soy based products.