New plant-based pork ribs to feature edible vegan bones(theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
New plant-based pork ribs to feature edible vegan bones
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/17/new-plant-based-pork-ribs-to-feature-edible-vegan-bones
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It’s a lot cheaper to just develop tastier vegetarian recipes and premade foods people enjoy. Can’t patent recipes though so no money in it
There are already lots of tasty vegetarian recipes. But a lot of non-vegetarians are really, really attached to the idea that vegetarian diets are somehow incomplete or unsatisfying.
So if you want to reduce the environmental harm and improve animal welfare, you need to meet them halfway. That means fake-meat products. It's not optimal along a number of dimensions (it's more expensive and less healthy than meals designed to feature vegetables), but it's something people will buy.
I'd love it if these became "gateway" foods, allowing them to at least consider the many foods that have always been meatless. Indian cuisine in particular has fantastic meatless dishes; I'd love to see that take off.
Meantime, I'm all for harm reduction. Better than nothing.
So if you want to reduce the environmental harm and improve animal welfare, you need to meet them halfway. That means fake-meat products. It's not optimal along a number of dimensions (it's more expensive and less healthy than meals designed to feature vegetables), but it's something people will buy.
I'd love it if these became "gateway" foods, allowing them to at least consider the many foods that have always been meatless. Indian cuisine in particular has fantastic meatless dishes; I'd love to see that take off.
Meantime, I'm all for harm reduction. Better than nothing.
But the way to get there in my opinion is to make tasty Indian food available to people’s diet for example. Maybe start with school lunches
What would plant eaters think if I cut some real pork into apple-like slices?
Could you at least try to provide some hard evidence without being such provocative cultists?
It shouldn't be so hard to do if your theory is right one.
Could you at least try to provide some hard evidence without being such provocative cultists?
It shouldn't be so hard to do if your theory is right one.
I was thinking it would be cool to make a restaurant that only served animal products. Like you could use lactose for sugar, milk and cheese, eggs, meat. It would be interesting to see how balanced a meal you could create.
Also, the story was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37191621
Also, the story was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37191621
Why TF would you even care? No one’s going to make you eat a poor simulacrum of pork, and of someone else is willing to eat it, it frees up more real meat for you. You are not being harmed by other people’s food choices.
I don't like these prosthetic meat products which purport to taste like real meat, but go against millions of years of evolution which has programmed us to only like the real deal.