Here’s a little jab at plant-based meat, e.g., Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. The problem, of course, is that raising the number of cows in this serene environment would require far more deforestation than what we’re experiencing today. McDonalds alone …
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Once You Get Used to Plant-based Beer, It’s Really Not That Bad
The 1992 United States presidential election saw Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeat incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush (as well as Ross Perot). I was lucky enough to live in one of Bush 41’s whistle stops, Woodland …
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What’s New in Plant-Based Meat? Honeybee Burger
Honeybee Burger has an interesting business model: open a national chain of restaurants that offer only their proprietary plant-based burgers (along with fries, drinks, and desserts), i.e., no products containing beef, chicken or fish. Their pitch to investors is linked …
Consumption of Plant-Based Meat Going Through the Roof
From this article: Sales of plant-based versions of wings, burgers, and meatballs have risen by double digits over the past year — and sales of plant-based Italian sausage have skyrocketed by 416 percent.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sustainable, Plant-Based Meat Is a Hit
Question: Burger King now offers the plant-based Impossible Burger, and, according to the cashiers in the one closest to “2GreenEnergy headquarters,” it’s outselling everything else on the menu. How many BK outlets would you guess there are? In response, one supposes, …
Primer on Plant-Based Meat
Here’s a good, albeit fairly general, article on plant-based meat: how it’s finding its way onto restaurant menus, its capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, etc. IMO, the most amazing thing about this whole arena is the taste;
Plant-based Meats
I had the good fortune of finding this podcast on plant-based meats, specifically, Impossible Foods, on the radio during a drive I took today. What does it take to get people who love meat to eat less of it?
Are Plant-Based Meats Healthy?
True to form, one of our frequent commenters cherry-picks a few aspects of plant-based meat that are sub-optimum for health. In fact, here’s one he missed: Both the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger have more than five times as …
Plant-based Meat Options
A reader who is battling prostate cancer writes: Here is an article on primate diets, showing that our human ancestors were nearly all vegetarians.
Plant-based Meat
Now this short video is funny. And it made some level of sense until recently. Now we have the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger, both which are entirely plant-based and virtually indistinguishable from cow meat.
