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dmritard96
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
From what I remember reading a while back, 70% of corn in the US goes to animal feed thus making meat a very subsidized industry transitively. Entire US states' agricultural product won't be needed and can be shifted over to other crops, returned to a more natural state, or used for plant based carbon capture. The best industry has some serious competition which will have massive effects up and down the supply chain.
dmritard96
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It is a good vegan/vegetarian product though...

I hear what you are saying but for someone in my shoes (I'm vegetarian, my wife is not), this makes life so much easier.
dmritard96
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Citation needed
dmritard96
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Vegetarian here.

Ugh. First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat. So making a veggie burger that tastes like the thing they don't like is just dumb.

Guessing anecdotally, I know as many vegetarians as you. Almost every one of them is happy to have a good burger option. I'm sure some % would be ok without a meat clone but the utility alone of having fast-food chains offer good vegetarian food is amazing. My non vegetarian friends have tried the beyond and impossible burgers and the vast majority have found them to be a satisfactory alternative to conventional beef patties.

Second: When I tasted an Impossible Burger, it was awful. It tasted like a horrible veggie burger.

You are probably in the minority here or you didn't have it prepped well. I'd recommend trying one at umami burger as so far, I have found their preparation the most reliable and delectable.

I personally reduced my meat consumption for environmental and health reasons

That's great, and precisely why this space is taking off.
dmritard96
·11 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
sure. There was what seems to be a correction in the PE market where funding become a bit more difficult to get a hold of. As such, an article came out suggesting that unicorns would have problems but cockroaches would survive. While the unicorn portion is a bit silly, the cockroach part is reasonable. Essentially, the companies with low burn rates and actual, real, cashflow will be more likely to survive.
dmritard96
·11 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
rise of cockroaches was the techcrunch headline, arguably this is a bit of a nod to that.