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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 19 2019, @12:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the at-least-it's-not-bugs dept.

Lawsuit claims Burger King's Impossible Whoppers are contaminated by meat

Burger King was sued on Monday by a vegan customer who accused the fast-food chain of contaminating its meatless "Impossible" Whoppers by cooking them on the same grills as its traditional meat burgers.

In a proposed class action, Phillip Williams said he bought an Impossible Whopper, a plant-based alternative to Burger King's regular Whopper, at an Atlanta drive-through, and would not have paid a premium price had he known the cooking would leave it "coated in meat by-products."

The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court seeks damages for all U.S. purchasers of the Impossible Whopper, and an injunction requiring Burger King to "plainly disclose" that Impossible Whoppers and regular burgers are cooked on the same grills.

[...] Its website describes the Impossible Burger as "100% Whopper, 0% Beef," and adds that "for guests looking for a meat-free option, a non-broiler method of preparation is available upon request."

Also at Boing Boing.

Previously: Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants
Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu
Plant-Based "Impossible Burger" Coming to Every Burger King Location

Related: Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds'
FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat"
Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products
Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @08:29PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @08:29PM (#922071)

    No one is actually allergic to peanuts. It's actually something that was invented by millennial mothers so they could be a nuisance to other people.

  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday November 19 2019, @09:10PM (1 child)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 19 2019, @09:10PM (#922082)

    > No one is actually allergic to peanuts

    Not quite. In the old days last century there were almost no adults fatally allergic to peanuts, because they all _died_ suddenly early in life.

    _Now_ that we've been diagnosing it and have a chance of preventing death from it for a few decades we now have a couple of generations who have lived to breeding age, with the result that prevalence has increased...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @09:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @09:53PM (#922101)

      The more effort is spent to shelter expectant mothers and then their progeny from Evil Allergens, the more hysterical and over-the-top the reaction of an untrained immune system of said progeny when the inevitable contact does happen at last.
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617537/ [nih.gov]