Destination: Moon
Senior Member
You'd be surprised at the demands the poultry industry places on the environment. From the feed to waste disposal to the billions of plastic containers, bags, toxic chemicals, antibiotic resistant bugs created..... Avian viruses - some zoonotic ....And on and on.I was excited by Impossible Burger for about a year, but the smell while cooking was too much like meat for my meat-averse wife. Between the cost and the variable availability, I pretty much gave up on that variety of faux meat. Gail goes for butter and cheese, otherwise is mostly vegan and eats some plant-based meat substitutes. I'm not really a vegetarian but want to keep the Mrs. happy,. As real chicken doesn't disturb me, I continue to eat it, so this new product doesn't appeal to me, Chicken doesn't have the environmental impact of beef, but just in case anyone's interested, rabbit has less environmental impact than chicken. The carbon footprint of a Big Mac is just atrocious.
BTW, didja notice that Soylent Green is set in 2022?
Of course this product will also come with it's own slew of costs and issues. But the suffering, bio waste and illness concerns will hopefully be absent.
The impossible meats and similar are incredibly good..... But not too great from a health perspective. There is a tremendous need for meat replacement that needs to be filled. It would be great if this is widely accepted
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