Beyond Meat Internal Reports Describe Dirty Conditions at Key Plant
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But from a neutral standpoint as to the ethics of the product (not that I don't have my own opinions, just that I am not making this about them): The factories need to be clean. There's no excuse. You cannot put out a product that will make people sick.
And for the record, major "junk food" brands are actually great at this. When was the last time you heard of Lay's or Hershey having a recall because their food was acutely poisoning people?
Whether or not you like or approve of a specific food product, food that is sold in the United States should be safe to consume.
I like and consume Beyond Meat, but it sounds like they need to get their act together.
Well, in May: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/05/more-than-300-sick-in...
But I agree that it's rare, overall.
But I take your point - it happens. It's really rare though, and it's always met by "oh shit, we'll fix this", not "well, we don't have a lot of money to make repairs right now, let's wait until we expand the factory several times."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-prosecutors-prob...
Just kidding, you won't. The political power of the meat industry is so significant in government that they actually made it a felony to record and publish what goes on inside hog confinement operations, meat packing plants, butchering, etc. https://aldf.org/issue/ag-gag/
So how is this different from the current status of slaughterhouses but without photos of the inside?
And it doesn't matter anyway. That meat plants might be gross doesn't mean Beyond Meat should be allowed to be. Everyone should be producing food in a clean environment.
> That Beyond Meat is gross doesn't mean mass slaughter of animals should be allowed to continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbgZQxd6J4
ps: don't watch if you don't want to see animal in distress, dead/dying animals
> How many cases of pork parasites or beef contamination in non-fast food products have there been in the past couple years?
Why do we get to exclude fast-food? That's what beyond burger is tbh, so if we exclude fast-food then it doesn't matter if beyond burger is contaminated.
[1]: 272,719 [2] / 18,000 [3] [2]: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/fact-sheet-fda-glan... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration
This is not the case for beyond meat, as it's still a small business that is distinct from fast food companies and serves both companies and consumers.
Am I wrong in this thinking?
every animal is inspected before and after slaughter and stamped by regulators (USDA not FDA) if meat is not stamped by an inspector it cannot be sold. A meat packing plant cannot operate if an inspector is not on site.
As opposed to your doubts about once a year monitoring, literally everything is inspected or it is illegal to sell (even as dog food).
Surely you can see the flaw in this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bell_Creameries#2015_list...
And their COO didn't bite anyone's nose...
1- this is junk food. It's highly processed food, the antithesis of their communication of healthy.
2- their communication is about "saving the planet" from cow farts. The issue is not cow farts. The issue is intensive agriculture and bad quality meat. Cows do not magically create CO2. They fart existing CO2 from grass, and grass capture CO2 from the atmosphere. It's a cycle. What broke the cycle are fossil fuels.
3- the ultimate goal is to put intellectual property on food. Same textbook recipe as Monsanto. And that's the major risk with all these "new protein" companies. We can't have food be an intellectual property.
I might be wrong. But this is my assessment.
Feeding the world with animal meat is not sustainable… requires too many resources and creates too much pollution and habitat loss.
Surely there are better ways to feed the world. Plant based is the future and products like beyond meat help with that transition… for those folks who still crave burgers etc.
You are very wrong.
But 63% of methane production comes from Fossil fuel industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_emissions#List_of_emis...
( it's funny how biased this table is laid out, agriculture is summed, while fossil fuels is detailed, showing smaller numbers, and gas flared ( 100M tons! ) is a footnote ).
The main problem is the source of energy we are using globally.
Food is a pillar of what defines humanity, thousand of years of culture, agriculture, traditions.
I'm socked !
Anyways, earth gave us plenty of non animal derived product to thrive on, most of them are already pre packaged in protective layers, they're cheap, tasty, can be cooked in thousands of ways, they're called veggies et legumes
It really didn't. Essentially every vegetable you have ever eaten is the product of millennia of genetic modification by humans and is completely unrecognizable relative to its natural form. Cabbage, broccoli, kale, and collard greens are all horrifically mutated forms of a single natural species, engineered specifically for mass human consumption. Compare this to animals: livestock are of course influenced by husbandry but not anywhere near the same extent. One can easily match livestock to their natural forms; e.g. chicken to junglefowl; cattle to other bovine species; domesticated hogs to wild hogs. Probably none of these species is more changed than, say, the domestic dog so it's not even clear one can attribute the changes to the needs of human consumption as one does with vegetables.
If the naturality argument holds water, then it in no way points us to the produce aisle, but rather to the butcher's.
All mass produced live stock have been carefully selected for breeding and slaughtering, all of them, chickens, cows, pigs, ducks, the lot. Not only selective breeding, but also chemical treatment due to the conditions they are grown in.
So no, they have changed susbtancially.
Do you think the "original" pig was this fat?
The "original" cow produced this much milk?
The "original" chicken produced this many eggs and meat?
I personally do not prefer the taste of beans to the taste of shredded barbacoa.