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Comment by jacooper | Hacker News Reader

Does anybody actually believe the world is about to turn vegan?

Because you got to be really delusional to believe so.

Edit: title was changed, it was "Ignore the hype that the world is about to turn vegan", and my comment was an answer to it.

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Are you saying the IEEE is delusional?

I am kidding btw, don't answer that.

The billionares are investing massively in fake lab grown food, so they will obviously also pour billions into marketing and pushing fake "lab grown food is good for you" studies just like the tobacco industry did.

It might not be real meat, but it is real food.

well yeah, you can make a substitute for pretty much any food with a starch, artificial coloring and artificial flavoring. it will even taste "good" if you fry it in an ungodly amount of oil, just like all these asian insect snacks that are brought up as an example of bugs being a perfectly good food - soaked in oil and seasonings, the only way to mask their disgusting taste and smell

theres a lot of shit thats "real food" but aint good for us. french fries in seed oils and a sugary coke is "real food" technically.

The thing is, we all know that processed meat is bad to our health, and its the core of many health issues in the wealthy countries.

So what do you call fake meat?, super duper processed food? And why should it be called meat in the first place if it has no meat in it?,

It should be called manufactured meat-like... Thing.

Also is it more healthy than normal meat? Or will we discover it has some long term side a effect that nobody noticed until it was too late?

our young global elites do, rather insistently.

there's no sacrifice they aren't willing us to make.

Currently developing countries are enormous carnivores. Veganism is mostly SWPL hipster thing from my observations.

Veganism is growing in popularity in Thailand and India, two countries I'm familiar with, both which have a long Hindu and Buddhist history of vegetarianism. Actually traditionally vegetarian in Thailand meant vegan because cow milk was not popular and eggs are seen as meat in Buddhism and Hinduism.

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