News New Meat-Free Hamburger: White Castle & Burger King Offer Plant-Based Option

[gleem]

Yeah, I think numbers will diminish as the market drops down to some lower level although I'm sure there will be a backlash or a "back to nature" kind of movement that can keep a portion of the farms still raising pigs and cows.

Probably will end up like the price of blue fin tuna in Japan.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/05/asia/giant-tuna-sets-record-at-japan-auction/index.html

 

[MyoPhilosopher]

From the paper cited.

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An what make meat safer with the consumption and concentration of these chemicals in their flesh along with the steroids and antibiotics that are fed them as well as those substances created in the preparation (cooking) of meats as Heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons?

Ok let's deal with it issue by issue.
Steroids and hormones injected into animals: This would cause no difference in concentration of hormones in hormone free animal products. This means cows injected with estrogen output the same amount of hormones in their milk as cows raised without exogenous hormones.
Antibiotics: In the USA, no beef sold commerically has any antibiotics.
Yes, burning your steak is not a good idea.

 

[MyoPhilosopher]

Animals also adapt to conditions. Before preservation techniques then refrigeration became common, our ancestors enjoyed meat so putrid to send a gourmet screaming. Humans seem to be colonized by or develope a gut biome suitable to digesting local food sources.

Has not the small appendix been found to be a source for replacing beneficial bacteria after the host survives famine or disease?

You are not making any specific claim here. Are you implying animals make natural pesticides we eat?
The matter of the fact is; 99.99% of all pesticides we ingest come from the plants themselves, and not the pesticides we spray.

 

[BillTre]

Now, major meat and food companies (Tyson, Smithfield, Perdue, Hormel and Nestlé) are getting into making meat substitutes.
NY Times article here.

 

[BillTre]

NY Times article on a taste test of different fake meat burgers.

Order of finishing (best first):
Impossible Burger (4.5 out of 5)
Beyond Burger (4 out of 5)
Lightlife Burger (3 out of 5)
Uncut Burger (3 out of 5)
Field Burger (2.5 out of 5)
Sweet Earth Fresh Vegie Burger (2.5 out of 5)

 

[russ_watters]

NY Times article on a taste test of different fake meat burgers.

Order of finishing (best first):
Impossible Burger (4.5 out of 5)
Beyond Burger (4 out of 5)
Lightlife Burger (3 out of 5)
Uncut Burger (3 out of 5)
Field Burger (2.5 out of 5)
Sweet Earth Fresh Vegie Burger (2.5 out of 5)

What, no Control Burger?

 

[jbriggs444]

What, no Control Burger?

Or Hamilton Burger. Compared to Perry, he amounted to a vegetable.

 

[gleem]

These new "burgers" are not a healthy as one might expect. check out the nutritional stats.

Beyond Burger

Four ounces delivers 250 calories, 18 total grams of fat, with 6 grams of saturated fat, 390 milligrams of sodium, only 2 grams of fiber, 20 grams of protein, and 25% of your recommended daily value for iron

Impossible Burger

One 4-ounce patty contains 240 calories, 14 grams of total fat, with 8 grams of saturated fat, 370 milligrams of sodium, 3 grams of fiber, and 19 grams of protein, plus 1 gram added sugar, and weirdly 5.3 milligrams of the B vitamin thiamine — 2,350% of your recommended daily value (a high intake is 50 milligrams a day) — and 130% of B12.

compare to a 4 oz Beef burger (10% fat),

260 calories, 14 grams total fat, 8 gms saturated, 70 mg sodium, 0 gms fiber, 31 gms protein, sugar0 gmsCost: Veggie burgers $11/lb, Beef $5-$8/lb.

 

[DEvens]

They attribute it success at least in part to using heme (derived from beet roots) in it (red meat contains lots of heme).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetroothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef
The red color in beets is produced by betanin, not heme. Iron in beets is present in other compounds. 100 grams of beet root will give you about 6 percent of your daily iron requirement, where 100 grams of beef will give you about 20%.

https://living.thebump.com/should-eat-beets-iron-6916.html

The iron in food isn’t all created equal. Iron in meats, such as beef, poultry and fish, called heme iron, is easily and well absorbed by your body. The iron in vegetables such as beets, as well as in grains and legumes -- called non-heme iron -- is not as well absorbed as heme iron. Eating foods high in heme iron or in vitamin C -- such as citrus fruits -- at the same meal as vegetables like beets can increase the absorption of iron.

 

[MyoPhilosopher]

It would be very interesting to see who exactly falls for ("errr I mean pays for and consumes") these fake meat products. I wouldn't imagine it is the die hard vegans, but more likely the average uneducated and unaware person that buys into the idea that saturated fat and cholesterol are bad. The truth is the moral argument for veganism does not hold any weight past an initial, understandable position of respecting animals, to which I as a meat-eater(thriving human) actually agree with at its very core. If you want to kill the least amount of animals, follow a diet that is predominantly made up of large ruminants.

 

[BillTre]

The red color in beets is produced by betanin, not heme. Iron in beets is present in other compounds. 100 grams of beet root will give you about 6 percent of your daily iron requirement, where 100 grams of beef will give you about 20%.

Opps, got that part wrong:

The Impossible Burger contains heme from the roots of soy plants, in the form of a molecule called leghemoglobin. Food scientists insert DNA from soy roots into a genetically modified yeast, where it ferments and produces large quantities of soy heme.

from here. So, it recombinant, which would bother some people, but not me.

Personally, I find the meatless burgers interesting only slightly due any personal health reasons (since I find it is easy to reduce the amount of meat I eat), but mostly due to the reduced cow methane production, which I considered an environmentally good thing.
How the production methods for these non-meat burgers affect overall carbon footprint (per pound of product with respect to cows) is something I would be interested in, but do not know.

The truth is the moral argument for veganism does not hold any weight past an initial, understandable position of respecting animals, to which I as a meat-eater(thriving human) actually agree with at its very core. If you want to kill the least amount of animals, follow a diet that is predominantly made up of large ruminants.

I can not make any sense of this statement other than as part of your ongoing disparagement of vegetarians or vegans. I am neither of those, but it seems obvious to me that you can kill fewer animals by not eating any than by eating only large ones.

 

[MyoPhilosopher]

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Cattle contribute under 2% of methane in terms of greenhouse emissions in the USA. Transport account for over a quarter last time I checked.
Anyway, since you can't make sense of the statement, let me try bring up a couple of ideas.

but it seems obvious to me that you can kill fewer animals by not eating any than by eating only large ones.

I find that response erroneous. At first I agree it may appear contradictory however: how many insects and other animals have to die to create vegan/vegetarian staples... the answer is a lot more than cows considering the shear volume of vegetables and non-animal products one would need to consume to simply attempt to replicate the nutrition from animal foods. I have seen a huge push of vegans that do not care about their health but rather purely operate on the intent to save animals. To me, this is hypocrisy.

I would strongly recommend looking at Alan Savory's work.

Out of curiosity, without any insult intended, is this something you have considered scientifically?
Looking at a lot of health "science" and government recommendations, the system was designed to fail, Ancel Key's pseudoscience (bullsh..) is a decent place to start asking questions.

 

[BillTre]

@MyoPhilosopher, you make a lot of statements without any links to support them.
If you want people to look into Alan Savory's work for instance, you, as the person making the argument, should provide a link to it.
Its your argument.
You should do the work to support it.

how many insects and other animals have to die to create vegan/vegetarian staples... the answer is a lot more than cows considering the shear volume of vegetables and non-animal products one would need to consume to simply attempt to replicate the nutrition from animal foods.

Where is the support for this "answer"?
How many insects die to produce cows? This seems more of a rationalization than any sttement supported by fact.

I have seen a huge push of vegans that do not care about their health but rather purely operate on the intent to save animals. To me, this is hypocrisy.

There are many vegans and vegetarians. They can have a variety of motives. You seem to want to lump them all into a group you can attack.
If someone does something for some purposes of their own and which seems to cause no harm, where is that hypocrisy in that?
Are they saying they are dong it for some other purpose? Certainly not all of them do that.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I tried the Impossible Whopper today and the patty was real good, the problem was everything else. It's just a bad pathetic burger in general.