This is a pretty great way for these simulation burgers to start out. When I get a fast food hamburger, I'm not expecting something processed. I haven't had an impossible burger but it looks a lot like a fast food hamburger. Looking forward to trying it!
Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
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Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#602The most interesting thing about this particular announcement is that it may normalize plant-derived meat-substitutes among the typical fast-food-burger eating population, and not just the mostly-vegetarian folks (like myself) who will spend $10 on an Impossible Burger at a fancy sports bar. Within a decade this might just be normalized, and nobody will make much of it.
No, the implications are even bigger than that, because the normalization and adoption will drive costs down. And when meat-substitute burgers are cheaper than meat burgers, and taste as good, they will become the default, and that is going to make a huge dent in the animal industry, which is all sorts of awesome, because the animal industry is all sorts of terrible. Right now, I'm seeing Beyond and Impossible substi…
Since you're on your soap box i'll add a talking point.
The number one reason for deforestation in the Amazon is to provide space and resources to farm cattle for beef. My point is, switching to a non animal based burger has larger implications that the overall health of the people eating the burger.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#603FYI for a lot of folks in here who may not know, Taco Bell is vegan certified. If you order something vegan they will prep it separately and make sure no animal products touched your food. I suspect they might add Impossible Meat (or a competitor) some time soon.
del taco is about to roll out beyond tacos to all their locations. While its not a direct (size wise) competitor to taco bell. Their competitors already have made the first move.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#604People should be aware that Burger King has had (MorningStar) veggie burgers for a very long time that they just don't broadcast. This announcement is not about introducing a vegetarian patty but rather about introducing a _specific_ vegetarian patty.
morning star patties aren't vegan. I know this has been a barrier for some people.
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#605Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The irony is that most people have given up on Burger King because of the poor dietary selection. [citation needed]
It's quite clear the OP is speaking in an anecdotal manner. The use of [citation needed] is one of the most infuriating, passive-aggressive internet trends perpetrated by people who clearly don't understand the point of citations [1]. [1] citation not required
> It's quite clear the OP is speaking in an anecdotal manner.
No, it wasn't; OP made a universal claim (“most people” not “most people I know”), and a claim of irony which makes more sense with a real geerality.
I actually assumed (and, in fact, still assume despite your interjection) that the not_a_pizza had some basis for making that general claim, and merely omitted it, perhaps because they assumed others were familiar with it.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#606I'm curious as to how Impossible burger compares on the health impact. I understand that it's plant based, but it seems to be highly processed and perhaps (not sure) loaded with bunch of chemicals and potentially unhealthy ingredients that make it taste like meat. Hopefully that is not the case and it's not just a meat substitute but is also healthy. Can anyone with more details please opine?
in fact its not really that heavily processed. They make an impossible burger by hand in this video.
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#607Vegan Here. I know a bunch about the health implications about meat. I follow very closely the impossible burger and beyond burger and their move into the mainstream restaurants. If you have any questions ask away.
I personally went straight from being a heavy meat eater and steak lover to a full blown vegan.
below is a video in which they make the impossible burger by hand and show every ingredient as well as showing the ins and outs of the impossibel burger from a science perspective.
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#608Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know. I ordered them at Bareburgers in Westchester, NY in the past year: https://www.bareburger.com
2.0 version was introduced at CES in January of this year. If it was before January it was the 1.0 version, if it was after January it might have been either.
Is the 2.0 version labeled as such? Or as "new and improved" ?
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#609Earlier quoted context omitted.
There aren't really "both ways" in the sense that the subsidy is equivalent between meat and other uses. 97% of soy meal (itself 80% of the soybean mass) produced in the US is used to feed animals for meat, not for making soy-based meat substitutes: https://ncsoy.org/media-resources/uses-of-soybeans/
Cheap soybeans makes meat cheaper, but the production of meat is inherently inefficient. If the production of meat substitutes from soy could be made more efficient than the production of meat from soy, then de facto soy subsidies would disincentivize the consumption of meat.
I wouldn't say it's inherently inefficient. It's certainly inefficient to devote the products of cropland to raising animals. But there's a lot of scrub land out there that isn't suitable to intensive farming but where you can still graze cows.
So from an efficiency perspective we wouldn't want to entirely eliminate meat production, just drastically curtail it. But from an animal suffering perspective and a "methane is bad" perspective maybe we do want to eliminate it.
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#610Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I wanted a lot of carbs with some protein, I could always eat quinoa or something. There's no shortage of options there. What's interesting here is a vegan protein source that's actually a nearly pure protein source. When you are targeting specific macros for athletic reasons, a pure protein source is pretty much a requirement. During aggressive cuts, you require a tremendous amount of protein to prevent muscle wa…
Oh yeah, I forgot. Anyone who does a nonzero amount of exercise is an "athlete" now.
You're on a website called "hacker news." Are you really surprised that there are people interested in hacking their bodies?