Recently tried an Impossible burger and nuggets and thought that if nobody told me it wasn’t meat, I’d have thought the patty was made out of a weird kind of meat, rather than make a connection with the taste and texture of plants. Honestly, I might not complain if that was the only kind of “meat” I could have for the rest of my life.
Well, maybe I’d miss bacon.
I’ve yet to find the opportunity to try lab-grown meat, but I for sure would like to try it out and don’t see much wrong with it as long as it’s sustainable, reasonably priced, and doesn’t have anything you wouldn’t expect in a normal piece of meat.
Also, with imitation and lab-grown options, I’d no longer have to deal with the disgust factor of handling raw meat (esp. the juices) or biting into gristle. I’ll happily devour a hot dog, but something about an unexpected bit of cartilage gives me a lingering sense of revulsion.
I’d be fine with lab grown meat, I’d actually prefer it, for health and safety reasons. Real meat is dirty.
I would rather eat a meal that doesn’t pretend to be meat and just be it’s own tasty thing. I don’t need a steak, but I do want a delicious savory thing.
Well it doesn’t really pretend to be meat, it is meat. It just grows differently.
And I’m cool with that! But my kidneys won’t let me enjoy red meat so let’s do lab grown tuna or chicken!
Mushrooms!
Meat is meat, and growing it in a lab means cattle won’t have to suffer the conditions of the average meat farm. Also means less greenhouse gasses from cattle.
Animals don’t have to suffer to make a steak taste good.
I don’t like to eat meat, so I also don’t like to eat things that remind me of meat.
I want plants that feel taste and smell like plants, please.
Which is a perfectly reasonable and valid preference
I personally like the taste of meat, but would prefer eating plants. Meat replacements are perfect for me
I swear people would rather spend a fortune developing sci-fi meat than spend pennies on beans and peas.
Ha, just posted practically the same
Same. What has been really disappointing for me is that a lot of places where my only option used to be a black bean burger have now replaced that with an impossible or beyond burger. It’s great for people who are trying to cut back on meat consumption so I like that they exist but please stop replacing my black bean burgers!
Completely unnecessary. Vegan chefs are wizards nowadays, and can show you how to make replacements for everything you need.
I make vsteak, and vchicken in large amounts about once per week, and use it in recipes. I can share the recipes I use if you like. I make vbacon about once per month, its a bit more labor intensive, but it tastes great.
Even apart from ethics, its 10x cheaper, and doesn’t contain any of the puss, blood, and feces that come in your meats currently.
Please share! This is on my list of things to learn
Some of my favs
My spouse and I are foodies and both vegetarian. We’ve had several chefs put together some absolutely incredible vegan/vegetarian dishes.
One of the chefs told us that being a plant-based chef has recently become much more respected in the culinary world. He thought we were at the start of a plant-based revolution in the culinary world. Younger folks are reducing meat consumption more than any previous generation, and there are beginning to be a lot of dedicated vegetarian/vegan restaurants popping up in most medium to large cities.
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I’d love a future where our food was about being nutritious and satisfying, while being ethically sourced and produced.
The problems we have only exist because capitalism demands ever increasing profits.
Lab-grown meat can’t come fast enough.
I’ve never seen it being sold in the supermarkets,
but I agree with what one tv show host has said it best:
“Why would anyone have more contanimation concerns of meat grown in a clean lab when this person eats meat cultivated in a dirty stall with poop on every wall?”For imitation meat, the stuff that’s cheaper is not better.
It’s cheaper nonetheless.
And the only better-than-the-real-thing imitation meat out there is a more expensive hamburger.They’re good for cravings, and absolutely help keep cultural foods alive even when going vegan. However, these days I’m very tofu-pilled (and tempeh-pilled), and don’t really rely on imitation meat.
Im game as long as the taste is good and the price is competitive (currently it would have to be the lowest price but if my situation changes I would pay a bit extra but not twice as much. well unless my circumstances changed enough for the spleurge). Im not sure if its impossible or beyond but I have had the bk plant one and the white castle. Both were fine especially in comparison to the fast food places regular fair. For those places I could see taking the plant based on just on taste as their regular burgers sorta suck.
Existing meat substitutes are so, so much better than they were when I first gave up meat.
Lab-growing is really hard to make work, since muscle just doesn’t like to develop that way, and solves a problem that now barely exists because of the plant-based substitutes.
Have you tried mushroom bacon? I havent, but seems like an alternative.
if they were cheaper and with near same nutrition, what’s there to not like? thing is that they’re just not economically viable atm.
I haven’t tried lab-grown meat but assuming it tastes more or less the same, I think it’s much more ethical and probably better for you. The substitute meats like Beyond and Impossible are good but like all groceries that aren’t staples bought in bulk, they’re ridiculously expensive, at least where I live.
I think because of the material position of the meat producers and the economy/state protectionism, lab grown meat would become a culture war issue in the global north (“I’m not eating the bugs” etc).
And the political capital necessary to make people eat “lab grown” meat instead of “natural meat” would probably be so extreme, like land reform and an actual cultural revolution, that at point why not just reduce the amount of meat consumed through plant based alternatives and non meat or reduced meat diets.
It’s a nice off-ramp for meatbrains to adapt a plant based diet, but should be treated as such, like nicotine gum and not relied on as true substitute. At this point, I much prefer tempeh, mushroom and bean burgers that dont bother pretending to be meat and cant ever imagine actually eating any real meat anymore, lab grown, synthetic, or otherwise
