Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation
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#2Regardless of veracity of OP's claims on Twitter, it's worth noting he sells "bone broth" and other animal-derived health and fitness products. There's always a dog in the fight somewhere.
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#3It’s a burger. It’s not meant to be consumed daily and it switching to it or other plant based burger decreases the amount of meat consumed.
No matter what it’s a much better deal than going in to a mcdonalds / whatever and getting the burger of the month from there.
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#4Are these really considered healthy? I always looked at them as being competitors to regular meat, sans the suffering and environmental impact. If they do that, without being more unhealthy than regular meat, then I don't see the problem - so how do they compare to regular meat?
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#5These fake meat products shouldn't be much healthier than pink slime burgers made of ground beef and fat.
Most burgers are made of 20 to 30% fat trimmings anyway, and the rest is ground beef.
All types of oils are not good for us, oil in general is not a health food, no even extra virgin olive oil.
The backlash against these fake meat products will come slowly but surely, these are not heath foods and should only be eaten sparingly.
Whole foods are the way to go, as opposed to highly processed foods like this plant-based burger.
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#6So he points to glyphosphate in the impossible burger and canola oil in the the beyond meat burger as being unhealthy. It seems a bit dubious though as the glyphosphate is within fda approved levels and canola oil doesn't have a firm concensus of being unhealthy
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#7"unnatural ingredients". What does it mean? Are "natural" ingredients better a priori? Is a molecule that is produced by a living organism better than the very same molecule synthesized in a lab? No, there is no scientific proof of that; that is just marketing.
"their most controversial ingredient is Soy Leghemoglobin. To make this ingredient, Impossible genetically engineers a yeast bacterium to produce a protein". So? What is the problem with that? It is scary because is made by a bacterium like most of the industrially produced vitamin C? Or is it because the bacteria has been genetically modified, like the ones who produce insulin for people suffering from diabetes? And what about "natural" meat produced from animals being fed with GMO soy then?
"In general, I think unwise to mess with the complex system of human biology by introducing large qts of foreign ingredients". Again, "foreign"? What do you mean with that?
Then it continues with "all non-organic" and so on, like the process is relevant, while the final result is not, similar to homeopathy.
I am very skeptical about this kind of criticisms.
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#8It seems OPs major complaint is that they are not healthy. But unless I'm mistaken, healthy isn't even part of their marketing. Their main thing is how it's better for the environment.
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#9"Vegetable oils are terrible for you?"
At that point, I knew something was up. He is one of those who consider soy harmful to you. Sheer insanity.
Also, he is making an argument on a false pretense: that eating processed meat is somehow okay because its already introduced to our diet. Guess what: it is not good for people. This is a product that is designed to be an alternative to that, not to home-cooked healthy italian meatless alternatives.
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#10Are these really considered healthy? I always looked at them as being competitors to regular meat, sans the suffering and environmental impact. If they do that, without being more unhealthy than regular meat, then I don't see the problem - so how do they compare to regular meat?
Based on the ingredient list they are not healthy eaten in large amounts, for an occasional treat why not.
The science seems to point to whole plant foods as being the way to go in terms of optimal health, and this is highly processed food.
It sure helps to reduce the environmental impact of meat, so I'm all for them as long as people are well aware that they are not healthy.