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As a meat eater, I would absolutely replace some of the meats I buy with meatless products if I liked them.
by drdrey 8y ago
As a meat eater, I would absolutely replace some of the meats I buy with meatless products if I liked them.
- hervature 8y agoAs a consumer, I would absolutely replace some of the consumables I buy with perfect substitutes if I liked them. This is exactly what economists assume.
- taneq 8y ago"If I liked them" is a much lower bar than "perfect substitute".
- dane-pgp 8y agoAnd there's possibly an "even if they were more expensive" dimension to such a claim too.
- hervature 8y agoI'll give you that, but if you look at the price of Beyond Burgers and a gourmet burger at the grocery store, they are equivalent. Also to your parent, likeability is orthogonal to being a substitute. You may much prefer Ferrari (or even horse for that matter) to your Toyota, that doesn't mean you would replace it.
- grenoire 8y agoThe economic definition of a perfect substitute is less about the literal definition of the phrase, but more about the way in which OP substituted it in (ha!)
- Kyragem 8y agoTry the impossible burger
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoThere are already quite a lot of decidedly decent meat substitutes on the market. They often don't taste much like the meat they are imitating, but are flavorful in their own right. Morningstar Farms in particular has a pretty large selection of burger patties.