Beyond Meat Shows the World Is Changing

Millennials grew up with the internet, unlike generations before them. For millennials who want vegan products the internet made it easy and natural to find them, information, and community.

For older people, this took longer and is still in progress.

There are older folks interested in vegan products, but millennials are the largest current customer base so far.

But that would only be an issue if the burgers are consumed in the state of California.

But more seriously, I'd like to see more food items available that aren't trying to imitate meat. For example there is a Samosa with chickpeas dish that they do in my company's cafeteria that is really good, contains no meat, but I don't miss the meat in that dish. It has a good mouth feel, gives an appropriate amount of energy, and fills me up throughout the afternoon. Whereas a dish containing mostly steamed vegetables (such as broccoli, carrots, and peas) or a salad typically fails to satisfy (unless you put cheese on the broccoli, or add ham or egg to the salad).

Now I can feel mostly satisfied by switching to primarily fish based meals, along with free range chicken (the ones that came from my grandma's chicken yard were really tasty). And I personally see that as more ethical / sustainable than consuming other mammals.

I thought I was making a good call when I bought PUT options against BYND last week. Let's just say that bet didn't work out (so far). The stock is crazy overvalued and such a hype machine, but it's nearly impossible to call the top on these things.

It has the potential to become VERY big. If i could have bought it at 45 dollars or so i would have put 80% of my net worth in that stock, i bought it at 80, expecting it to be $100+. These are the juul and vapes for traditional cigarettes. If vegetarian meat tasted good, is similarly priced, and doesn't prove to have adverse health consequences, why would anyone support the cruel practices of animal farming etc... Think about it, it is not easy to create fake meat which tastes like real meat, and all the money they make will enable their R&D to go further in a hard to enter market of which they are one of the first pioneers.

> HIGH

That's a curious word. The effects of LSD, MDMA, cocaine, heroin and weed are all described as "high", but they're very, drastically different from each other, and different people, in different life situations and psychological states, crave for different drugs.

Weed in particular is about relaxing, contemplating, slowing down and drifting off. I think that a person who wants to get high on weed is, in general, much more ethical in his subsequent actions than someone who snorts amphetamine lines or drinks shots of vodka, and that this shift in substance of choice in the last ~10 years is overall a positive change. So, it is somewhat connected to ethics.

> Cannabis is not about ethics. It's about people who WANT TO GET HIGH

That's stereotyping.

All sorts of people want to use cannabis, and for all sorts of reasons, including pain relief, health reasons, social lubrication, and for creativity.