No, just some of the basics. The piece was long enough to talk about more than one aspect.
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No, just some of the basics. The piece was long enough to talk about more than one aspect.
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But CBS Sunday Morning is all puff pieces. That's sort of their MO. If you were expecting them to cover the controversy, you were looking to the wrong news source. That's not what they do.
Agreed.
Was nice to see the shout out to Soybean hemoglobin (leghemoglobin) which was part of my thesis work at Iowa State. The lab I worked in was able to over express it in E. Coli which made it really easy to obtain. I'm not sure if the company is doing that, but that would be an easy source for heme.
We also used to sell it to a cosmetics company due to it's "oxygen scavenging" capability.
Information. Not promotion of the company's marketing scheme.
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I don't have an opinion on the product other than the fact that it is another highly refined processed food being marketed to us as healthy because reasons.
The fact that they have drawn huge investment dollars means the effort to press the current fad will be longer than most. Ultimately they will move on to the next shiny thing as they always have before.
I want to try one for the novelty of it, but I don't know how "reasonable, albeit expensive facsimile of a product I enjoy" moves the needle for most people to endorse the product in any other way.
The fact that they have drawn huge investment dollars means the effort to press the current fad will be longer than most. Ultimately they will move on to the next shiny thing as they always have before.
I want to try one for the novelty of it, but I don't know how "reasonable, albeit expensive facsimile of a product I enjoy" moves the needle for most people to endorse the product in any other way.
Living in LA and Chicago the past 20 years I know countless vegetarians who really don't eat that healthy. I tried it for about a year and a half (half a year vegan, one year vegetarian), you really have to be almost a food scientist to get the correct complete protein combinations. I ended up adding back in many types of meat and fish but avoiding the fried foods I used to often eat meat with.
Avoiding processed foods (and thus crazy levels of sugar and salt) is really the one real piece of advice people need to eat healthy. Eating the correct portion for your own activity level and metabolism is probably the next piece of advice.
A gluten free or vegetarian diet may indirectly result in some people consuming less processed foods. In some cases it doesn't. I really think the "successful" gluten free and vegetarians are seeing the benefits not from lack of meat or even lack of gluten but from increased whole fruits and vegetables. The kind who "fail" are just replacing some types of processed foods for others. (not talking about celiac disease)
If I could eat myself I wouldn't have time for message boards.
I very much enjoy Impossible Burgers and get them when I can.
Last week I bought some Beyond Burgers to grill on the 4th. They were right on par with the Impossible burger if you ask me.
Last week I bought some Beyond Burgers to grill on the 4th. They were right on par with the Impossible burger if you ask me.
Playing up on the fear of what's in food and alluding to the "if you can't recognize it, it may be dangerous scheme." I see the same garbage from the anti-GMO and natural medicine crowd.
A little depressing to see it from a professor, but it appears to be working against his field of animal science, so I'm not entirely surprised.
I just found it interesting. Like I said early on in this thread, the current food trend is for less processed, more natural food, but the fake meat movement goes the opposite direction.
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The fake meat alternatives are advertised as wholesome, better for our health and the environment. The ingredient list shows that it is ultra-processed, so much so that it is indistinguishable from dog food. I'm sure plenty of consumers would find that interesting.
I'm curious to try it out, going to buy one the next time I go to the grocery store. I've heard that they are pretty tasty, but the texture is a little off. Will report back.
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Premium dog food is pretty much human quality at this point isn't it?
I bought some treats for the pups. They smelled like fig newtons. The ingredient list was recognizable stuff.
Their web site said the food cannot be considered human quality because they didn't want to pay for testing, but the manufacturing process was in line with human standards.
So bring on the fake meat. Let's save a cow
Whats also interesting is that the FDA recently released a report about seeing an increase in heart disease in dogs who are eating these "Premium" foods with high concentrations of peas and lentils.
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterina...al-connection-between-certain-diets-and-cases
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterina...al-connection-between-certain-diets-and-cases
Totally. We've personified dogs to the point of providing them food we could eat.
Fake meat is the future.
