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This is great and all, but until I can buy it in a grocery store, it’s entirely useless to me.
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That doesn’t look like rare steak. It looks like soy, grain, and beet juice from here. I’d eat it, but I wouldn’t pretend it’s meat.
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No surprise that he’s yet another meat-lover who has to get in his jabs at vegetarians (comparing them to caged birds who eat seeds and crap on paper and so on), all while claiming to believe in “live and let live.”
So many meaters think vegetarians and vegans are depriving themselves. Far from it!
For the most part, meat is now not only something I don’t crave; the thought of much of it actually disgusts me.
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Amen to that. Or, to quote the X-files poster “I want to believe”.
I suspect the savings may be not all we expect. People can taste the difference. There may be other complications. But it shows that the basic premise that something meat-like can be made without having to grow the whole animal. It means that much of the gains are real. It means people might stop felling rain forest for ranching. Vegans may be disgusted by my colon, and Jeremy Clarkson may chose to dine elsewhere, but it will be good enough for me.
Yay, impossible burger! Please, please be good.
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Off topic but… new song!
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I quite like my burgers a little “bloody”. Although the ones i’ve had, which were beef, weren’t that … messy. It’s not as much juice as in a rare steak.
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Well it is Jeremy Clarkson, not known for erudite subtlety. I suspect that the Impossible Burger isn’t really meant for vegetarians or vegans. I think it’s really made for meat eaters, as an occasional respite from resource intensive meat.
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Gogol Bordello is never off-top, IMHO! YAY!
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I’m not convinced by the bleeding either. TBH after too many bad BBQ experiences having any sign of pink or bleeding in a burger (or sausage/ hotdog) puts me right off the idea and I don’t think my brain is going to care that it’s not real meat. I’m glad that there’s now a decent alternative for vegetarians and those who have ethical concerns about where their meat comes from though, even if it is still restricted to only a few places for the time being.
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I haven’t had land animals in 20+ years and I started because I just never liked it that much. The kicker was having a poorly preserved cat to dissect in anatomy. The chicken like quality of molding over cat muscle I had to clean and continue to use until the replacement arrived made me think yup chicken is out now too. I have zero desire to eat meat stuff now and very rarely have fish. Knowing how terrible the meat industry can be and knowing the carbon footprint is significantly less is good too. Also I never yell at people or judge or comment on why their choice to eat meat is _____. I don’t try to convert anyone, but it’s good to see vegetarian getting more diverse. I don’t understand the need to jump on any vegetarian or vegan posting and just start ripping it apart. Was this article telling you to stop enough to provoke anger?
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Well, I hear tell that meat consumption makes people more aggressive. 
You pegged another irksome stereotype, that of the obnoxious veggie-vangelist. Some people have undoubtedly met such a person, though I doubt many have.
I’ve never met an obnoxiously, openly judgmental vegetarian, nor vegan (though I’ve known MANY such people). And yet, the stereotype persists. And if a meat-eater does encounter one, it’s like, “Bingo! Stereotype confirmed!!” Ugh.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I still haven’t gotten past the fact that someone unironically deployed the “my shit doesn’t stink” argument in this thread.
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I’m afraid you’ve got your quote levels mixed up.
I’m not in the habit of sniffing turds, and I would appreciate a retraction.
I think YOU have missed the point of not eating meat.
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And David Lipman, who is chief scientific officer was the former head of NCBI (and main creator of BLAST, probably the most important bioinformatics tool). That being said, it isn’t clear how such expertise translates to the food industry. I don’t think genomics or sequence alignment are major parts of the job.
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No way, David Lipman too? I agree that genomics isn’t playing a role in this burger. Just an interesting anecdote.
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I tried going vegetarian a couple of years ago as part of a weight loss plan. I did give it a good shot and was able to be meat free for the better part of a year, but I fell off the wagon. I’m now 80% meatless though so… good?
Anyway, I bring this up because during the entire fibrous time my ass was producing the nastiest of butt smells. So I’m nay-saying any suggestion that vegetarianism turns one’s butt hole into a dainty-smelling region.
ETA: I’d eat the shit outta this impossible burger
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