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To: Red Badger

Iff it tastes good and it’s cheap enough...


3 posted on 09/23/2022 8:42:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Actually, “meat replacement” plant based foods have been around quite a while, I recall that some thirty years ago, or maybe more, a sort of “hamburger extender” was available, to be mixed with ground beef, to make a lower-cost substitute. These mix-in ingredients seem to have disappeared, though there a lot of things like plant-based “bacon” chips, and of course, tofu, a soybean curd that was supposed to be “cheese”.

Then there was supposed to be a sort of pink slime, grown from cultured beef muscle tissue, but NOBODY is seriously going to eat it in that form.

Soybean oil meal, high-lysine corn meal, and various parts of of wheat germ are also used for a “balanced” protein mix, but these ingredients do not actually provide the same balance as a naturally grown meat product, be it chicken, turkey, beef, pork, mutton or even “cheval”, horsemeat.

I would not choose to determine if “Soylent Green” was of equal food value.


26 posted on 09/23/2022 9:04:27 AM PDT by alloysteel (A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
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