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FFS, this gives the people what they want without imprisoning and killing cows for food. Maybe have some evidence that it’s unhealthy before you bullshit a negativity next time

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Significant number of carbs and has added sugar, sounds less nutritious than hamburger to me.

Upton Sinclair effect right here. Let's keep supporting a major source of climate change, obesity, antibiotic resistance, animal cruelty and heart disease because you want a hamburger... nothing else is good enough for you, focus on the negatives, discard all of the positives.

Yeah, I cannot fathom our downvotes either

Also sounds less captive-bolt-pistol’y to me. And less greenhouse-gassy https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/11/301794415/ga... I’ll take the negatives to have the positives, in this case, and I don’t see how anyone else ethically, rationally, wouldn’t.

And I kinda already know they will succeed, so there’s that

Green-washing the stuff doesn't make it any less of a processed food.

These are orthogonal issues.

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