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How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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I'm far more interested in cultured/clean meat grown from real cells.

Are there any commercial products and has anyone tried it? I do recall some video somewhere of a US restaurant and people said it was reasonable but that could have been plant based.

I tried the impossible burger at Burger King. I could not tell a difference personally from any typical fast food burger. Would buy it again to satisfy a craving.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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It really shouldn't be called "meat". It should be called plant-based protein or meat-substitute. The definition of "meat" shouldn't change because you press some soy to look like a chicken leg.

Yes, as long as this isn't going down the route of "consumers will get confused" by terms like "oat milk".

People aren't that stupid and the arguments against using the word milk annoy me. I think it's a sign that people are changing their diet and the dairy industry is worried.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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It really shouldn't be called "meat". It should be called plant-based protein or meat-substitute. The definition of "meat" shouldn't change because you press some soy to look like a chicken leg.

Meat-substitute just sounds like a more generic way to say plant-based meat? Meat is also defined as the edible part of a fruit or nut. /shrug

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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Cows and livestock eat plants and convert into meat. It’s natural and organic and proven process that’s been around for thousands of years. Ground up plants with food colorings and odd shapes are not meat.

Exactly! There is no such thing as plant based meat.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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A worthy goal. I'd love to lower the price of plants too. It never fails to amaze me how expensive some vegetables are compared to meat for some rough equivalent measure like calories. The subsidies for meat and dairy are ridiculous by comparison.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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Cows and livestock eat plants and convert into meat. It’s natural and organic and proven process that’s been around for thousands of years. Ground up plants with food colorings and odd shapes are not meat.

Agreed. Some vegans/vegetarians don't want their food labelled meat either.

However please don't compare the modern industrial meat production with anything like farming from, say, 500 years ago, or with ancient hunting. Modern meat production is brutal (for necessary cost reasons) and hugely destructive to the environment.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any commercial products and has anyone tried it? I do recall some video somewhere of a US restaurant and people said it was reasonable but that could have been plant based.

I tried the impossible burger at Burger King. I could not tell a difference personally from any typical fast food burger. Would buy it again to satisfy a craving.

That's not cultured meat. It's plant-protein based.

Re: How to lower the price of plant-based meat

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It really shouldn't be called "meat". It should be called plant-based protein or meat-substitute. The definition of "meat" shouldn't change because you press some soy to look like a chicken leg.

Yes, as long as this isn't going down the route of "consumers will get confused" by terms like "oat milk". People aren't that stupid and the arguments against using the word milk annoy me. I think it's a sign that people are changing their diet and the dairy industry is worried.

I once bought "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!". I'm that stupid :(.

https://www.google.com/search?q=I+can%27t+believe+it%27s+not...

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