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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: 4, Interesting) by number6x on Tuesday November 19 2019, @05:31PM (2 children)

    by number6x (903) on Tuesday November 19 2019, @05:31PM (#922011)

    Yes it is weird, If things that animals excrete are included in 'animal byproducts' (like Milk and honey), why isn't Carbon Dioxide included in animal by products?
    Taken to its extreme...

    Animals breath in oxygen. Their metabolism combines the oxygen with carbon, and the animals exhale Carbon Dioxide.

    Plants breath in the Carbon Dioxide, separate the Carbon from the Oxygen and exhale the Oxygen, The Plants use the carbon as a building material for their growth.
    That's right! Plants are,basically, animal by-products! Plants are using animal sourced CO2 as a basic component of their structures!
    If you are a vegan who only eats plant based food, you are eating only animal by-products. Sure, there are some vegans that draw an imaginary line between the CO2 excreted by animals and other animal byproducts like milk or honey.
    These vegans imagine that this imaginary difference between one animal byproduct and another makes everything OK.

    True vegans need to avoid all animal CO2 contaminated plant based foods in order to stop eating animal byproduct based foods. They must grow all plants from volcano based CO2 in a sealed hothouse!
           

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @06:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @06:32PM (#922025)

    Fertilized with what?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @06:45PM (#922030)

    True vegans need to avoid breathing air because air isn't 100% vegan. You're breathing molecules of animal skin, hair, and feces.