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Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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Foods that can be "engineered" these days are getting quite impressive, at least on a technical level. It seems that we're getting close to turning soy, yeast, etc. into almost arbitrary flavors.

Using this knowledge for new vegan products seems better than just creating increasingly bizarre flavors of chips or junkier junk food.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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I'm happy to eat plants of all sorts, in their natural form. A slurry of plant fats and proteins which approximates eggs sounds like nasty factory runoff. I don't get this trend anyway. There are lots of perfectly good vegetarian dishes out there. Why do we have to whore out the food industry to the tastes of meat eaters in the name of saving the planet ? Can't wannabe "virtuous" meat eaters learn to eat vegetarian f…

I'm a big proponent of vegetarianism, and I think there's a lot of value in these "transitional meats." I've convinced one friend to vegetarianism over the years by cooking "meat-like" replacements for them... this is the type of person who might say "oh I've considered it before, but I could never give up hamburgers" to a vegetarian. Overall if the goal is meat reduction, then it's a win if you can get someone to oc…

Meat consumption reduction to 2-4 meals a week feels ok. Some cheese and eggs other days. This is totally bearable.

What I feel is really detrimental is the fitness culture pushing for no carbs and 2 grams of proteins per kg of body weight.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

#53

I have one question... Why?

https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2020-02/ipbes_global_a... Page 28: >Globally, land-use change is the direct driver with the largest relative impact on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, while direct exploitation of fish and seafood has the largest relative impact in the oceans (well established) (Figure SPM.2) {2.2.6.2}. >Over one third of the world’s land surface and nearly three-quarters of available fres…

People didn't wait for ultra processed plant based food to be vegetarians/vegans. If anything it's just capitalism catching on a trend now that the market is big enough.

Nestlé doesn't give a single fuck about ethics and morality

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

#54
post #46

Its hard for me to understand exactly how the term "plant-based" came to be an acceptably descriptive name for a category of food. Is it so hard to just put the name of the plants in the name of the food? I think most people would be skeptical of going to a bar and ordering something off the menu that was simply called "Animal-based Wings."

If they listed the shit they put in them nobody would eat them. Same thing with hot dog sausages or chicken nuggets, when you've seen the factory videos they're puke inducing

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Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

#55
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Beyond beef and impossible have been successful because meat eaters are willing to choose them and like them. Put another way, can't you learn to like an all meat diet without sneaking in vegetables or making them seem like non-meat? (Well, no, you like what you like, and you probably won't make huge changes without incentive).

Personally I don't know of anyone who eats the fake beef in my social circle. They are pretty horrific when you look at the ingredients: Tertiary butylhydroquinone, Erythosine, Propylene glycol, Ferric orthophosphate. Ugh. But lentils, carrots, potatos, brocolli, peas, beans, onions, mushrooms, nuts -- that's fantastic.

One real downside of Beyond/Impossible is that every restaurant I've been to that had a decent plant-based burger (i.e, their own veggie patty) has just switched to ordering one of the big two.

Stuff tastes less interesting now.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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post #46

Its hard for me to understand exactly how the term "plant-based" came to be an acceptably descriptive name for a category of food. Is it so hard to just put the name of the plants in the name of the food? I think most people would be skeptical of going to a bar and ordering something off the menu that was simply called "Animal-based Wings."

If they listed the shit they put in them nobody would eat them. Same thing with hot dog sausages or chicken nuggets, when you've seen the factory videos they're puke inducing

I would think there is a big difference between using anuses and other misc. parts in hotdogs and mung bean protein in a beyond burger in terms of what's revolting.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm happy to eat plants of all sorts, in their natural form. A slurry of plant fats and proteins which approximates eggs sounds like nasty factory runoff. I don't get this trend anyway. There are lots of perfectly good vegetarian dishes out there. Why do we have to whore out the food industry to the tastes of meat eaters in the name of saving the planet ? Can't wannabe "virtuous" meat eaters learn to eat vegetarian f…

I like meat. It sucks, because I recognize the ethical implications of eating meat. I tried being vegan briefly and I dearly missed eggs. Saying "existing vegetarian food is good enough, let's not see what else we can do, everyone should just get over it" seems a bit silly to me.

Traditional vegetarian diets allow for eggs. Vegetarian and vegan mean different things.

Your extremist attempt to go from presumably a meat-centered diet to absolutely no animal products at all is not really a counterpoint to anything I've said.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

#58

if it is plants, it is not Eggs best way for a product to not work is to label it as "plant based" *insert_animal_food_name*

This is so very annoying especially in vegan restaurants. Why is everything called "Chicken" or "Beef" when its really gardein? I wish they would just call it ground chuck or something so its clear what you are being served. It's confusing even for vegetarians sometimes.

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

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post #29

Vrimp sounds like something I would stay far away from. Other than that, sounds cool.

It's depressing to think that a group of people were paid to think of a name and after many months and countless meetings they came up with vrimp

I'm sure hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent engineering this name

Re: Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp

#60

if it is plants, it is not Eggs best way for a product to not work is to label it as "plant based" *insert_animal_food_name*

Are you equally pedantic on the colloquial classification of nuts when a large portion of the "nuts" we eat are actually drupes? Or fruit vs vegetable classifications? Perhaps language is a tool used to convey meanings and ideas in ways that are quickly and concisely understandable. The "plant-based" insert_animal_food_name allows people to understand that this food item is meant to mimic an animal-based food item, except it's derived from plants.
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