Oh, and try to make them healthy, unlike Impossible burgers.
Next up: plant based roast boar's head, complete with eyeballs.
Yes, there are a billion lovely things you can do with vegetables, but sometimes people are looking for a specific known quantity. Maybe it's a "food as a nostalgia/cultural heritage" thing-- you always had a hot dog when you went to the baseball game, now you can still get a Beyond Sausage. Maybe it's not yet being adventurous enough to try a meatless dish that stands on its own. Maybe it's trying to cater to an entire family, where other family members are eating meat and you want to provide something they'll be comfortable with.
Even outside of the attempt to emulate meat, I give them credit for experimenting, because it expands the culinary vocabulary. Maybe those "realistic bones" can be used as part of an entirely novel dish to add texture or change how the cooking cycle progresses.
I'd rather they focus on things that stand a chance of actually being good alternatives.
Plus if you hype something and the product doesn't live up to the hype, it damages the market.
I would say that the primary goal is to reduce the animal suffering and environmental damages caused by animal agriculture. Healthier varieties of plant-based products are a good thing too, but it's less important which products people are switching to, as long as they're switching away from factory farming.
There is no such thing.
Even if we never get to a perfect simulation of meat, the ethical and environmental reasons for avoiding factory farming far outweigh whatever marginal pleasure you might get from it.
Ummmm, like much needed protein? Source of B12?
I’ve had thousands of veggie burgers and most lack stability unfortunately
Coincidentally I just got back from Jamaica a few days ago, and as a vegetarian I always try to find the Rasta spot as soon as I can as they’re usually the ones with the best veg food. I was thinking of these burgers and now here we are — I guess I should make a batch this weekend!