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not only this, but to turn plants into "meat" you end up with horrible processed vegetables with added oils, sugars and unnatural flavourings. most of which are then breadcrumbed in bleached flour and deep fried. by this point, the thing that might once have been a plant is now as bad as meat, if not worse, and resembles a dog turd in taste and health benefits

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People looking for direct meat replacements arent always doing it to be healthier though, so they might be okay with it being just as unhealthy as meat.

Completely agree. Why can't we all just eat regular, and not so highly processed vegetables if we want to make the switch to healthier diet..

Few people completely stop eating meat for health reasons these days. Even reducing red meat consumption is no longer considered particularly important for your health. It's almost always about the environmental and/or ethical issues surrounding the production of meat.

I love the taste of meat, so even though I want to reduce my carbon footprint I also want to keep eating burgers. Impossible burgers and other highly processed foods give me the best balance of those two competing desires.

Yeah I agree. There’s delicious vegetarian dishes, with low processed ingredients. Why bother with ultra processed fake meat?

Its pretty intuitive, actually: people like burgers- even vegetarians or those trying to reduce their meat consumption.

I think that varies from person to person. People from largely vegetarian cultures probably don’t crave vegetarian hamburgers.

And not all people from meat cultures do either. When I was vegetarian for a few years I simply ate vegetarian dishes. It probably depends on why you became vegetarian in the first place.

You’re not wrong but it’s beside the point. You don’t not make something because some people don’t want it.

I have no doubt they will be able to sell this to millions, I’m just saying that it’s a silly way to approach vegetarianism.

I guess I don’t understand what is silly about it? You or some group disagree with veggie burgers so they are silly?

People buying veggie burgers not going to take away other vegetarian foods in the process.

I do think veggie burgers are kind of silly, but this is much sillier.

It’s fake, that’s what’s silly. A piece of pretend meat. And it’s especially silly to contort yourself to make a fake hamburger when you can just have a real arrabbiata. Or a delicious margherita.

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