Thought this was kind of interesting about the science behind the meatless burger (the "Impossible Burger") that tastes like you are eating meat:
Pichia pastoris isn't a plant. It's a species of yeast used for protein expression in biotech.Quote:
On behalf of Impossible Foods Inc. ("Impossible Foods"), we are submitting under cover of this letter three paper copies and one eCopy of Impossible Foods generally recognized as safe ("GRAS") notification for its soybean leghemoglobin protein derived from Pichia pastoris.
biobioprof said:
it's a GMO product. Personally, I don't have a problem with that, but I suspect some of their target market doesn't share my love of GMOs.
I am with you. I eat meat currently, although it is not completely guilt free. (i.e. There is some moral component to killing things with a brain for consumption, but not enough for me to stop eating it because it tastes so good.)bigtruckguy3500 said:
I find this burger interesting. Personally, I like meat. A lot. But, if the cost of this burger and similar meat-like products comes down, I'd be willing to drop my meat consumption.
Yes, I prefer companies that produce food in a pro-science and pro-society way.queso1 said:
That's odd. You search out gmo? I don't buy into the whole gmo thing, but that's kind of like being a smoker who refuses to smoke American Spirits because they don't contain additives and chemicals.
There is some truth to that, but I think some people reduce meat consumption for other reasons than look/smell/taste, like social, economic, or health reasons. (Obviously everyone is different and values things differently.)aggiebq03+ said:
I guess I just figure if I want something that looks, smells, feels, and tastes like meat, I'll just eat meat.
But if a bunch of other people switch to eating something other than beef I'm all for it. Keeps the beef prices down for me.
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Impossible Foods says producing one of its burgers requires only a quarter of the water and 5 percent of the land that making a conventional burger calls for, and that the process emits only 13 percent of the greenhouse gases.
I'm no hippie, by any means, but I do believe that in general consuming more plant based foods is better for the environment and more sustainable. That's my angle for willing to give up some of my meat consumption in favor of something like this.aggiebq03+ said:
I guess I just figure if I want something that looks, smells, feels, and tastes like meat, I'll just eat meat.
But if a bunch of other people switch to eating something other than beef I'm all for it. Keeps the beef prices down for me.