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Can you be more specific? Are you referring to cheese? Do they cook the burger in animal fat?
by Consultant32452 8y ago
Can you be more specific? Are you referring to cheese? Do they cook the burger in animal fat?
- sciurus 8y agoA Whopper contains mayonnaise, which is made from egg yolk. I assume that's what bifrost meant by "animal products".
- pazimzadeh 8y agoI think that the Impossible Burger originally achieved its taste by using heme protein isolated from cow blood, but it looks like that's now done by expressing and purifying soy leghemoglobin in a yeast expression system, so I'm not sure what bifrost is referring to.
- jimktrains2 8y agoThe grill it's cooked on also cooks meat patties. Some people do not like any contamination in their food. When I became vegetarian I thought about this a lot but came to the conclusion that if I ever wanted to go out with friends that it's something I'll have to accept. You'd be surprised at the number of places that use chicken broth in otherwise vegetarian fare as well. It's a compromise, but one I'm willing to accept; some people are not.
- bifrost 8y agoI'm def not in the camp of being PO'ed by that but I understand why some people are. One thing I learned long ago was that there were "dieters" and "ethical vegans" and only sometimes did they overlap. The availability of the IB is great for dieters which increases demand and thus eventually the "ethical" population is served.
- bifrost 8y agoI'm referring to the process of cooking it. They don't separate the food and you get cross-contact with meat and dairy proteins - making it non-vegetarian and definately not vegan. This is basically all marketing driven (which is fine) but its not animal-product free, which is what normal people think when they see "plant based" food.
- noselasd 8y agoHow much of an "impossible" 150g burger are we talking about here that contains animal meat ? 10% ? 50% ?
- GordonS 8y agoIn a cross-contamination scenario as described, it's going to be trace amounts only.
- noselasd 8y agoSo it's a meatless burger that might have been in contact with meat or been in contact with a surface that has been in contact with meet ? And this upsets people to the point the entire product is dismissed and labelled a lie ? No wonder the world is not at peace.
- bifrost 8y agoPeople don't like being lied to.
- noselasd 8y agoHow is it a lie ? Where is this line drawn ? After all farmers like to fertilize fields using manure from animals - which ends up in the plants. Animals breathe and exhale CO2, which plants might take up. Plants might have been in contact with or partially eaten by birds, butterflies, deer etc. "contaminating" the plant we later eat, but this does not seem to bother people.