(random anecdote, not representative of general vegetarianism)
I had a mate who went on a two-week nothing-but-green-apples “purification” diet.
By the end of it, his wife was talking about buying a bunch of canaries to use as expendable toilet-odour tests.
My Vegan Boss is still trying to track down the Holy Grail of Vegan Processed Foods, “The Vegan Fishfinger”. Apparently they are on sale in our city, but, according to him, “All those selfish Vegans are eating them all!”
It sounds like the Heme browns with the application of meat, so it should be possible to have a burger that is “bloody as hell, or burned to a crisp”.
What kind of heathen eats a Mettbrötchen without fresh onions?
Doh! My carnivore brain fails again 
Around here, the only burgers that don’t bleed are the barely-qualifies-as-food McDonalds crap. Proper burger patties aren’t grey.
You’ll get more redness from the beetroot, and more drippage from the egg, but if the meat isn’t at least a little pink it’s overdone.
At what point does it cease to be “a hamburger” and become “with a hamburger”? 
“Hamburger with the lot” 
Thanks to these things, many Australians are able to unhinge their jaws like a snake. Or at least look like it.
This is what free range chicken is http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/2/f/8/5/f/image.imgtype.articleLeadwide.750x422.png/1383802619488.jpg
Not exactly an improvement. Often the chickens just live on top of others.
Guess what your chicken and cow are fed? Pesticide sprayed animal feed. And a cow will eat a lot more pesticide sprayed plants than you ever could. The pesticides are stored in adipose tissue (fat). So when you bite into chicken or beef you’re eating concentrated pesticides. (muscle tissue is made with fat, so even the leanest of meats will still have pesticides).
There are also plenty of non-bleeding veggie burgers, some even have that lovely smoked flavor, like the Gardien patties be'f burger | Gardein
Well we know that pretty much every type of meat gives us cancer (http://www.wcrf.org/int/research-we-fund/cancer-prevention-recommendations/animal-foods) so at the very least, this impossible burger can’t be any worse.
Pretty much anything can be shown to be carcinogenic in the lab if you try hard enough. The dose makes the poison [1].
Where the Impossible Burger really wins out, though, is environmental impact. The water consumption, climate impact and land use footprint of one of these is a tiny fraction of a beef burger. Cattle farming is an environmental nightmare.
It isn’t a product aimed at vegetarians; they’re intending to promote it to carnivores (who seem likely to remain the majority in America for the foreseeable future). If they can replace just a few percent of America’s beef burger consumption, the environmental impact would be globally significant.
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[1] But we do also have good epidemiological reasons to consider meat consumption as a factor in real-world cancer risks.
I, sometimes. Please do not undermine my point that raw meat is tasty on its own and hard to fake, while hamburgers and marinaded atrocities are so heavily processed that there’s little point in claiming that vegetarian variants are “trying to be meat.”
Not really. Depending on the breed, chickens do gather like that, even if they have ample space.
And that’s from the guy whose free-range chickens need to be plucked from trees and whose bones are as tough as those of cattle and pigs. (I usually eat most of the bones, but those I couldn’t crack.)
Ever seen a Brazilian X-Tudo? There’s a bunch of Brazilian spots around me that specialize in them; it’s a hamburger topped with (deep breath) bacon, ham, a chicken patty, steak, lettuce, tomato, corn, peas, crunchy shoestring potatoes, cheese, and mayo. Toppings vary from place to place (sometimes they stick some pork loin in there, a fried egg, etc) but the burger patty is probably the least interesting part of the sandwich.
Mistakes were made.
A few hours ago, I inadvertently associated Jerwin with an unseemly
association between excrement and aromatic adventures. My heart and my best
intentions still tell me that it’s not true, but the facts and evidence also confirm this.
I fully retract my statement- and humbly apologize.
After watching a few more “Let’s Eat” videos about the Impossible burger it does seem like that’s the case. Hopefully at some point it’ll become easily available worldwide and, more importantly to poor people like me, at a comparable price to regular burger meals at my local Harvester or Weatherspoons.
Any word on its calorific content and levels of salt and fat?
Their FAQ says that each patty has 220 calories with 380mg of sodium (it doesn’t outright state how much of that may be salt) and 13g fat (11g saturated).
So kind to animals, but not kind to humans
