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Do you have some reason to believe that meat is healthier, or is this speculation?
by bigtech 7y ago
Do you have some reason to believe that meat is healthier, or is this speculation?
- bad_user 7y agoThe number one reason is that we've eaten red meat for millions of years, literally. Given fake meat is new and I'm not seeing it in stores nearby yet, I'm going to assume a fair comparison will take another decade, after the studies and the meta analysis show up. Until then the burden of proof is not on me ;-)
- BubRoss 7y agoAs opposed to plants?
- bad_user 7y agoThinking that eating fake meat is like eating plants is ... similar to thinking that crack cocaine has similar effects with coca leaves. I expect more from HN :-)
- wes-k 7y agoAnd you’re thinking fast food meat is similar to what we ate for millions of years ... ?
- kamaal 7y agoPlant meat is not sold as an alternative to fast food meat, it's sold as an alternative to meat. It will exactly go the way dessert corn flake breakfast has gone over the decades. A highly taste engineered food, loaded with chemicals and macro nutrient stuff which will give you a lot of diseases on the longer run.
- BubRoss 7y agoCan you explain the difference between it and the vegetables it is made out of?
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- Grue3 7y agoThere are tons of plants that are not healthy to eat at all. Or can be processed in a way that makes them unhealthy, or even dangerous to eat. See: tobacco.
- BubRoss 7y agoWhich vegetables are they using that you think will cause cancer?
- anonymouswacker 7y agoEating red meat is Lindy. Eating processed food with seed oils in factories is not. The market is manipulated because of status games using bad science... it will unravel itself soon.
- BubRoss 7y agoWhen you say something brand new and made from vegetables must cause cancer I think the burden of proof is absolutely on you, and so far you haven't given a single reason why that might be true.
- kamaal 7y agoWell if you want vegetables, you might as well skip this whole ceremony and straight away eat real vegetables. It's not that hard to make a vegetable sandwich. The problem is you are selling processed vegetable mash with salts, chemical preservatives, conditioners and oil as meat. It's not meat. It is, what it is. Processed vegetable trash. Sell it that way, and its perfectly fine. People can eat it if they want. Let's not signal this as some healthier alternative. For more information read: Ship Of Theseus.
- BubRoss 7y agoThe person I replied to was saying that it likely to cause cancer. What are they putting in specifically that you think will cause cancer? It seems like people saying this are full of vague handwaving and won't give any specific reason or ingredient for why they think that.
- kamaal 7y agoYes, it's called evolution. We could do the same with plant based meat or whatever processed garbage gets sold in its name. We can let millions of people eat that day in and out and watch if they die out of heart disease and cancer over the next decades. Feel free to sign up. Personally not going to turn myself or my family into lab rats for these grandiose world changing goals.