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Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

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truekonrads · 1790245908 · focus · HN ↗
Why eat meat at all is the big question? Impossible and Beyond satisfy the taste and craving without the nastiness.
1. Emma_Goldman · 1790246535 · focus · HN ↗
  Interesting, the question for me is why eat ultra-processed meat simulacra, that don't taste particularly nice, like impossible and beyond burgers? It is possible to home cook far healthier and more delicious veggie burgers with seitan, mushrooms, lentils, etcetera. Ultimately, this whole meat substitute market is targeting a niche that doesn't exist at anything like the scale envisioned, because it competes with low cost meat on the one hand and low cost plant-based burgers on the other, and is worse than both on all relevant metrics.
  1. thriving_earthw · 1790295078 · focus · HN ↗
    What metrics?
    <a href="https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/how-healthy-are-the-impossible-burger-and-beyond-meat-vs-beef/" rel="nofollow">https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/how-healthy-are-the-impossib...
    This comparison seems to suggest they are very similar. The fact that impossible burgers are vastly less resource intensive to produce and don't involve killing an animal for no good reason is an incredible deal.

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