I welcome Impossible Pork, looking forward to trying it.
I am one of those weird people who doesn’t like to eat inhumanly raised animal products, but I just don’t care what other people choose to eat.
I was really hyped up to like it, but found it only somewhat like meat. I was impressed with the texture inside. The outer crust reminded me of warm cardboard. To be fair, I might have burned it so I do want to try it again. Really keen to try an Impossible Burger (anyone know if there’s somewhere in Australia that serves them?).
My whole place smelled sickly sweet after cooking it as well. I’ve seen some people describing it as smelling like cat food, which I’d agree with.
Personally I don't think they're particularly healthy - I'll stick to chick pea patties or the occasional beef patty. They are highly processed.
I think coconut oil is somewhat like cilantro, in that certain people get a soap like taste from it, based on some kind of genetic trait.
Though it does have less aldehydes than some other types of oils, which goes against my theory. It does, however, have a fair amount of decanal, one of the aldehydes in cilantro.
Would "soap like" describe the unpleasant flavor at all?
It really shouldn’t be weird. It should be the default. Almost No one would purposely harm an intelligent animal yet it’s to norm to support industries that do.
Except for the fact that human beings have been purposely harming intelligent animals for food for millenia.
Thought experiment: is it ethical to eat animals that have been genetically engineered to be braindead?
(There's also the land use and emissions angle. Arguably meat consumption causes harm to all humans and beyond.)
Well, technically they said that they don't "like to eat inhumanly raised animal products".
But I guess the general argument is whether their stance is inherently consistent.
...which is pointless to deconstruct without further input from the parent.
How about, while hungry they are sickened by the cruelty involved in producing food, but while full, they simply have other, more important things on their mind?
If we slaughter ants and fruit flies while not caring for their rights, what is that different from a cow or dog?
I know this is an unpopular position, but I don't see the logic in animal rights.
Now, when we're talking about maintaining ecosystems, I'm all for it. What's happening to bees is bad for humans.
But creating cattle just to slaughter and eat it, that's just part of our nature. Like a lion slaughters a gazelle. We just evolved to have the tools to breed them...
Maybe cattle breeding is inefficient and pollutes the planet. That's also bad,but it's the best way we've found yet to feed billions of people and keep affordable food prices.
Kind of like if someone has a poorly maintained house in your neighborhood, it impacts the value of your house.
Just because I cycle to work and don't own a car for environmental reasons, doesn't mean I think car owners are assholes - I have owned a car in the past, may do again in the future, sometimes get taxis and lifts, and have plenty of friends and family members with cars.
I wish the world had more people like you... I suspect there will be less wars.
Tim Minchin, comedian pianist, is going to share a song he hopes will be a seed for peace (first 2 and 1/2 minutes), the lyrics are “You don’t eat pigs, we don’t eat pigs, why not not eat pigs together ... ... pigs.” (last 2 and 1/2 minutes)
The audience laughs and sings along. I liked the song but the laugh timing, particular when he was playing music but not speaking, made me feel as if there was an in joke I was very far outside of.
"Why not not eat pigs together."