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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday March 25 2020, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-fake-meat-just-feet? dept.

Impossible CEO says it can make a meat 'unlike anything that you've had before'

Plant-based meat products are bigger than ever, with the fast-food industry, grocery stores, and upscale restaurants coming on board. A recent Nielsen report found that plant-based meat alternative purchases went up 279.8 percent last week after Americans were instructed to stay home during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based meat products, says its mission is to someday replace the incumbent meat industry entirely, stating that, from a mission standpoint, a sale only has value if it comes at the expense of the sale of an animal-derived product.

But what if plant-based meat wasn't just a substitute for an already-existing marketplace, and instead, it started to make meat that has never existed?

On this week's Vergecast podcast, Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown talks to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about how this impossible meat could be a possibility in the future, even if it doesn't make sense for the company right now.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-04-08

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Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @01:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2020, @01:45PM (#975451)

    >> How would we ever know that without a blind taste test?

    Wait about three more weeks until the epidemic really kicks in... there will be a lot of vegans willing to eat the homeless once they run out of carrots and lettuce to eat.