I’m probably the target audience in that I am an environmentalist who likes meat. But I am too grossed out by the fake meat to eat it. I’d rather have a veggie burger or lentil tacos or something real. I keep wanting to try the impossible stuff but I gag thinking about it. I don’t know why it grosses me out so much when I’m fine eating a dead animal.
Also I agree with PPs that I prefer a decent veggie burger over a bad beef burger. I ate mostly veggie burgers in college because the quality of the meat was so bad in the cafeteria. My mom took me out for steak every time I came home.

Nope. I eat real meat, but I don't want to encourage overly processed foods. Hard pass on the fake meat.

Honestly this fake meat stuff is ridiculous. If you want to consume less meat, for health or ethical reasons, as all of us omnivores should be doing, then just eat less meat. The very act of processing makes food less nutritious and more problematic (see recent studies about processed foods linked to dementia and cancers).

And reduce your processed food consumption, while you're at it.

Fake meat is fake food. Much of it is still high in saturated fat. I would much rather eat rice and beans or a vegetable stir fry than fake food.

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Anonymous wrote:as a fellow vegetarian - we're not the target market. the target market is meat eaters who don't want to stop eating meat, but do want to do it in a more ethical, sustainable way.

don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. it is good if meat eaters decide to eat fewer animals. it doesn't have to all be for us.

This! Also I HATE when restaurants replace their veggie burgers with impossible burgers. That shit is gross.

Where have you ever had a good veggie burger?

Burgers are for eating a big ol meat patty without getting your fingers saucy.
If you don't want a burger, why are you having a burger?

Nothing about the word "burger"indicates a cow being slaughtered for your lunch. A burger can be a patty of anything. And, it can be a patty without anything dying.

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Anonymous wrote:disgusting to me. The idea of meat is already gross to me, why would I eat fake meat? Why put money into this research? At least it will help solve climate issues and the ending of animal slaughter, but to me it's like fake cigarettes.
If you are a meat eater, and decide to troll this comment, I will ignore it- won't engage. But if you are a meat eater with a thoughtful comment about diet, or a vegetarian, what do you think? Isn't it easier to just reorganize our global food supply to plant based?

On the off chance the bolded was a serious comment - no, absolutely not. Are you kidding? Just reorganize the global food supply? How do you propose to do that? Outlaw meat?

Yes. And everyone wins.

Well, why don't you get started on that, and report back in 3 years to let us know how it's going.

You probably need to read a book. Or something.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that one day the developed world will look back on the practice of slaughtering animals for food as a barbaric practice. I just don't know when that will happen--maybe in 40-50 years?

Humans are omnivores. Animals are food. Good grief, who cares? Do lions care about how the gazelle feels when they're disemboweling them alive?

Some.ofntue most endangered animals in the world are in fact specific breeds of livestock. There's no reason to grow those animals anymore if they are of no use. You know what's worse for chickens being raised for food? How about making them go extinct because they have no use of we force people to eat lab food.

Factory farming is not ok. Whether you think we need meat or not. The way we treat animals for food is what’s wrong with this country.

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Anonymous wrote:as a fellow vegetarian - we're not the target market. the target market is meat eaters who don't want to stop eating meat, but do want to do it in a more ethical, sustainable way.

don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. it is good if meat eaters decide to eat fewer animals. it doesn't have to all be for us.

This! Also I HATE when restaurants replace their veggie burgers with impossible burgers. That shit is gross.

Where have you ever had a good veggie burger?

Burgers are for eating a big ol meat patty without getting your fingers saucy.
If you don't want a burger, why are you having a burger?

Because they taste good and are really filling?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:disgusting to me. The idea of meat is already gross to me, why would I eat fake meat? Why put money into this research? At least it will help solve climate issues and the ending of animal slaughter, but to me it's like fake cigarettes.
If you are a meat eater, and decide to troll this comment, I will ignore it- won't engage. But if you are a meat eater with a thoughtful comment about diet, or a vegetarian, what do you think? Isn't it easier to just reorganize our global food supply to plant based?

On the off chance the bolded was a serious comment - no, absolutely not. Are you kidding? Just reorganize the global food supply? How do you propose to do that? Outlaw meat?

Yes. And everyone wins.

Well, why don't you get started on that, and report back in 3 years to let us know how it's going.

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Anonymous wrote:as a fellow vegetarian - we're not the target market. the target market is meat eaters who don't want to stop eating meat, but do want to do it in a more ethical, sustainable way.

don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. it is good if meat eaters decide to eat fewer animals. it doesn't have to all be for us.

This! Also I HATE when restaurants replace their veggie burgers with impossible burgers. That shit is gross.

Where have you ever had a good veggie burger?

Burgers are for eating a big ol meat patty without getting your fingers saucy.
If you don't want a burger, why are you having a burger?

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Anonymous wrote:I think that one day the developed world will look back on the practice of slaughtering animals for food as a barbaric practice. I just don't know when that will happen--maybe in 40-50 years?

Humans are omnivores. Animals are food. Good grief, who cares? Do lions care about how the gazelle feels when they're disemboweling them alive?

Some.ofntue most endangered animals in the world are in fact specific breeds of livestock. There's no reason to grow those animals anymore if they are of no use. You know what's worse for chickens being raised for food? How about making them go extinct because they have no use of we force people to eat lab food.

You aren't fooling anyone.
Everyone knows you didn't care a whit about chickens going extinct until you saw it as a dumb excuse to rail against vegetarism.

Eating every species a ridiculous "solution" to the problem of extinction.

Do you consume every plant and animal you can in order to support conservation?

I love meat and I love cows and I eat vegetables and I love processed junk food.

Big fan of lab meat if it's relatively in line with Beyond Burgers.

Not so happy if requires a lot of fetal bovine blood serum.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that one day the developed world will look back on the practice of slaughtering animals for food as a barbaric practice. I just don't know when that will happen--maybe in 40-50 years?

Humans are omnivores. Animals are food. Good grief, who cares? Do lions care about how the gazelle feels when they're disemboweling them alive?

Some.ofntue most endangered animals in the world are in fact specific breeds of livestock. There's no reason to grow those animals anymore if they are of no use. You know what's worse for chickens being raised for food? How about making them go extinct because they have no use of we force people to eat lab food.

Um, we are humans, not animals. We have brains that can be used to make decisions about our behavior and the effect we have on other creatures. Animals also can't drive themselves to the grocery store to buy an alternative. We can. Your arguments are absurd. If we can avoid the suffering of another living creature, then we should.