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Jilly_in_VA

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Fri Jan 21, 2022, 01:53 PM Jan 2022

Big Food is ready to sell you more plant-based meat [View all]

Animal agriculture accounts for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — yet lawmakers largely ignore it when crafting policy to combat climate change.

That neglect extends to the food industry more broadly, which for a long time has paid even less attention to its emissions than the energy or transport sectors. But as big fast food chains, grocers, and food manufacturers roll out sustainability plans, some are specifically committing to increasing and promoting their plant-based offerings, which are much less carbon-intensive than conventional meat and dairy products.

Panera Bread kicked things off two years ago when it announced in January 2020 that it would make half of its menu plant-based in several years, up from 25 percent vegetarian at the time. Earlier this month, Burger King UK went a step further by announcing a plan to make its menu 50 percent plant-based by 2030 as a way to achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 41 percent by 2030. And this week, McDonald’s announced plans to trial its McPlant burger made with Beyond Meat in 600 San Francisco and Dallas-Fort Worth area locations starting February 14.

The change has been swift. In a report published late last year, FAIRR, or Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return — a nonprofit that lobbies food corporations to address the environmental and social risks of factory farming — found that the 25 companies it lobbies are all at work developing their own plant-based products, while seven of them have announced specific targets to expand their plant-based sales.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22883795/food-industry-plant-based-vegan-meat-dairy-climate-pledges
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OK for lots of people, not for me. The components of most "fake meat" have BAD effects on me. You don't wanna know.

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I'm afraid of what they fertilize and spray it with. live love laugh Jan 2022 #1
At the end of the day, plant-based meat is still processed food. tinrobot Jan 2022 #2
I'm sorry it doesn't suit you--my daughter can't eat it either renate Jan 2022 #3
I like Quorn. Their nuggets make great boneless buffalo wings. nt Phoenix61 Jan 2022 #10
Quorn is huge here in Sweden. Celerity Jan 2022 #37
I am amazed at how close some of them are to the real thing. GoCubsGo Jan 2022 #16
I like the Beyond Meat products Fiendish Thingy Jan 2022 #4
And unlike Impossible Burgers, they're non GMO! bif Jan 2022 #27
I love Beyond burgers! StarryNite Jan 2022 #33
Still don't understand why anyone wants to eat Deminpenn Jan 2022 #5
+1 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #7
But what if you like meat, but want to make a smaller enviromental impact... Silent3 Jan 2022 #8
Eat less. Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #9
That still doesn't answer your objection to some people wanting meat substitutes. Silent3 Jan 2022 #12
Lol, ok! Nt USALiberal Jan 2022 #34
Eat real meat when you have a craving for it Deminpenn Jan 2022 #13
Or, you could eat a meat substitute. Silent3 Jan 2022 #14
because they just don't taste right Amishman Jan 2022 #29
That's fine as a personal choice. If you don't like them, you don't like them. Silent3 Jan 2022 #32
The Beyond.. Keth Jan 2022 #39
There is very little to nothing that you get from meat that you can't get elsewhere. Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2022 #20
What does it matter to you why they do it? Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2022 #19
yes, I find that genuinely puzzling renate Jan 2022 #30
Doesn't matter to me, Deminpenn Jan 2022 #38
I don't care for it much iemanja Jan 2022 #22
I see it as a stepping stone HAB911 Jan 2022 #28
Also tastes like meat (at least the ones I've had do) Spider Jerusalem Jan 2022 #36
Great Lent and other fast days Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #6
These meat substitutes are okay, but when I can get them, I like black bean burgers better Silent3 Jan 2022 #11
I've seen recipes Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #15
Wouldn't cultured meat iemanja Jan 2022 #24
Depends how the cultured meat is produced Silent3 Jan 2022 #25
We grilled 5 hamburgers and one Impossible Meats burger mainer Jan 2022 #17
One of these days a fast food veggie burger will cost a dollar or two less than a beef burger... hunter Jan 2022 #18
I'll stick with a VGNonly Jan 2022 #21
I yearn for the fake chicken Sympthsical Jan 2022 #23
have you tried Quorn? renate Jan 2022 #31
I don't eat meat, and frogmarch Jan 2022 #26
That's the way I feel too. I don't want to eat something that taste Raine Jan 2022 #35
'cause it tastes good Piasladic Jan 2022 #40
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