McDonald’s introduces and begins testing the “P.L.T.”, its first plant-based burger

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[greenscarrf]

Beyond Meat’s growth has been insane. Are they owned by some conglomerate? There are so many better faux meat brands out there that don’t use over-processed soy.

[triviagogo29]

yikes, they use soy??

Are they owned by some conglomerate?
The company has received venture funding from Kleiner Perkins, Obvious Corporation, Bill Gates, Biz Stone, the Humane Society[7][8] and Tyson Foods.[9]

so basically they're being funded by Bill Gates, Twitter (i.e.: Obvious Corporation/Biz Stone) and Tyson, a multibillion food processing company. so yikes.

[sandstorm]

Eaux.

[lulufairybubble]

Beyond Meat uses pea protein. Impossible is the one that uses soy.

[triviagogo29]

oh yes, that's what I read. Impossible Foods seems like pure trash tbh. although from what i'm reading, Better than Meat is not all that great either lol. i just read a bunch of articles and most of them try to frame it as a good alternative, but when you read it it's actually just "well, it's better than impossible foods and the ingredients are not as bad as other processed food" (while implicitly saying "it's still trash though, don't think that's a good source of protein").

all my friends that have tried says it tastes great though lol

[hazejournal]

What’s wrong with soy?

[triviagogo29]

among other things, most soy is genetically modified and treated with A LOT of agrotoxic

[kels]

What's wrong with genetic modification?

[awkward_as_heck]

Unintended side effects that mess with the local ecosystem and food growing.

For example, you make a soy bean that is resistant to pests, but it also hampers the local bee population which means other things don't get pollinated properly.

Or you modify a plant to be resistant to a common strain of rot/infection, but that means more virulent strains that are resistant to the modification have room to spread, making the original modification obsolete and leave you with a bigger problem than you started with.

Plant cultivation has always been a bit of an arms race, but gene modification has turned something that happened over decades into something that happens within the space of a few seasons and potentially much more difficult to deal with.

[gumby]

insanely dumb question, but does this mean that ...soy milk is bad? i grew up thinking it was supposed to be healthy.

[awkward_as_heck]

No, it's healthy and good. I drink it myself. But, I'd maybe avoid GM stuff if you can because we don't know what the long term side effects of gene modding will be.

[dior]

you will grow a third arm and have a hard time finding shirts to fit

[slut_talk]

No soy!

[triviagogo29]

yeah.

people who think they're doing something for the environment by giving money to a company funded by Tyson Food are just fooling themselves. most of our consumerism nowadays is just us thinking we have a more ethical choice when actually, we don't. the truth is bleak but we should face it tbh.

[tetrazzinichikn]

Well this makes me feel terrible about my bragging about successful investing in Tyson stocks. God dammit.