but why write more than 7000 words to communicate a simple point (lab-grown meat was promised 1-2 decades ago but failed to arrive and won't arrive in the foreseeable future)?
You mean the e-waste generating companies that actively target children with their highly addictive products?
Thanks for the anecdote though, that is interesting.
So at this point it's not even clear that anyone is actually losing their grip on the status quo...
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Eternal dependence, and applauding the way they destroy your humanity down to the very last cell. Go on, applaud it.
Also the small farmers you are romanticizing hardly exist anymore precisely because of the returns to scale that lead large resource efficient factory farms to dominate.
This reads like propaganda. Take tofurkey for example, it's just seitan and tofu and the same "chemical binders" you'll see in every other product in the freezer aisle.
And tofu is only as "ultra-processed" as cheese or bread is.
The only odd one is soy leghemoglobin, which comes from soybeans but mimics meat hemoglobin. It's just part of the legume, though.
The only troubling thing on the ingredients list is how much oil they put into it, but you can make the same complaint with 70/30 meat burgers. The macros are bad, but most burgers are.
I hope you use fresh turmeric for your Indian meal, because the powdered stuff is sometimes adulterated with lead oxide.
Plenty of folks can take criticism.
Just as a matter of what's more effective, even aside from the fact that judging people is inherently wrong.