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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
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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
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(Score: 5, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday November 19 2019, @03:27PM
Yes, yes there is. [stopallergyguide.com] More specifically it is an allergy to one of the subcomponents found in all red meat. And it has been somewhat linked to tick bites. [acaai.org] And like most any allergy, it requires exposure and maybe several exposures to the source to form the antigens which trigger the histamine responses. (i.e. the first bee sting you ever get is almost certainly not going to put you into anaphylactic shock... the next time sometime down the road might.) And yes, some people with red meat allergies are severe enough to carry an EpiPen or similar.
All that said, if one actually had that level of allergy one would be a fool to eat at Burger King. Too much risk of cross-contamination too many different ways. It is not dissimilar to how if one has a *really* serious peanut allergy one should avoid almost all fast food places, period, because such places aren't into guaranteeing that what they sell you was made in plants where peanut products weren't processed too.
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