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Red Squirrel

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Beyond Bankruptcy(TM).

I tried Beyond Meat once just out of curiosity. It's not terrible, but it's no replacement for real meat, and it's worse for the environment (way more processing and mining involved for all the chemicals etc) and it's also much worse for you nutritionally. If I'm going to cheat and eat processed food I rather just go to McDonald's or something.
 

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Up there with - "Milk, it does a body good!", "Got milk?", and "the incredible edible egg!"

I eat beef critter, but I like to supplement it for various reasons. I'd miss beyond products. Hopefully someone else will buy them when the time comes.

I don't have a whole foods near me, do they have their own label?
I don't know - I don't even know where the nearest whole food might be. I'm fairly partial to New York Strip steaks.
 
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Captante

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Disclaimer: My only experience with Beyond meat "artificial meat" products is limited to Burger King's Impossible Whopper and while it wasn't terrible aside from a slightly odd texture I could barely tell the difference.

Frankly the rare times I eat beef I want actual beef not beef-like plant paste. 😉


Edit: Brain-lock lol .... its right there in the name no excuses.
 
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balloonshark

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Disclaimer: My only experience with Beyond meat products is limited to Burger King's Whopper and while it wasn't terrible aside from a slightly odd texture I could barely tell the difference.

Frankly the rare times I eat beef I want actual beef not beef-like plant paste. 😉
Burger king is made by Impossible. It's the only thing I can eat from Burger King. I've also bought either Beyond or Impossible meat patties from Krogers and the one that gets a crispy crust when frying is my favorite. I don't buy them unless they are on sale though.

I hope Beyond can hang on until increasing beef prices make alternatives more attractive. Also a plant based meat if more appealing to me rather than something grown in a lab.
 
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esquared

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How about the Japanese shit burger?
Remember that?

 
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My goals with fake meat have more to due with ecology and animal welfare. I eat meat, but I think it's much less than the typical non vegetarian American. If everybody tried a little, it would equal a lot.
Yeah, red meat is particularly resource intensive - much more than most people realize. Plant based meats were a nice substitute and a way to make traditional meat dishes vegetarian.
 
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GodisanAtheist

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Looks like meat's back on the menu, Boys!

-Yeah 'cept it's literally getting more expensive by the day.

I'm in a high COL area in California so stuff was always going to be expensive, but my Chicken has gone from $8.25 to $9.99 a pound within the last month or two and beef... Holy fuck we're looking at $22 a pound for basic shit like NY Strip and such.

Funny enough the one thing that gets me to work more fiber and veggies into my diet is pricey meat. I typically do 1.5lbs of meat for a family of 4, with a lot of legumes/cruciferous veggies/etc.
 

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How about the Japanese shit burger?
Remember that?

Who wouldn't want one of those? o_O
 

bba_tcg

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-Yeah 'cept it's literally getting more expensive by the day.

I'm in a high COL area in California so stuff was always going to be expensive, but my Chicken has gone from $8.25 to $9.99 a pound within the last month or two and beef... Holy fuck we're looking at $22 a pound for basic shit like NY Strip and such.

Funny enough the one thing that gets me to work more fiber and veggies into my diet is pricey meat. I typically do 1.5lbs of meat for a family of 4, with a lot of legumes/cruciferous veggies/etc.
At $22 / lb, Id have a reason to cut back. Right now, NY Strip is about $16 / lb and I eat less than I want to.