• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bugs, crickets specifically iirc, have been touted as the miracle solution to getting protein in everyone’s diet without the ethical or environmental ramifications of the current meat industry.

    This has nothing at all to do with the impossible burger, or any burger that I’m aware of… maybe the previous guy just thinks it tastes like bugs? …and fuck if they can make a bug patty taste as good as the impossible burger, then sign me up - the impossible is NOT bad. It’s not great either, I’d rank it as slightly better than the average fast food burger patty, but that’s good enough for me.

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      1 year ago

      When the vegetable meat costs more than the animal meat, I can feel the “I’m being ripped off”. Make fake meat cheaper than real meat and I’ll eat it all day long.

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        1 year ago

        Animal meat is subsidized heavily, plant meat is not. All we’d have to do is stop subsidizing animal agriculture and start subsidizing more plant alternatives.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I don’t know why this is downvoted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me as someone who has managed to cut most of the meat out of my diet. We definitely need affordable alternatives. Real meat is cheaper right now and that is the deciding factor for a lot of people.

        Hopefully we will see this change soon.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t say I’d feel ripped off, but for my broke ass, cost is probably the most heavily weighed feature of my food. Ethical and ecological concerns come in 2nd. To really push consumers toward meat alternatives, those alternatives need to, at the very least, cost the same as meats.