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Beware Vegan ‘Meat’ Peddled by Venture Capitalists
- nickelcitymario 8y agoScaremongering, nothing more. tl;dr: "Venture capitalists may prioritize money over your health." To which I say, how is that not true of ANY capitalist, not just the venture ones? We have food regulations for this very reason. No one needs to trust any food company, because we long ago discovered that trust was dangerous. So we have government regulators keeping an eye on things now. Is it perfect? Fuck no. But the argument that Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger are somehow more dangerous because they're funded by VCs is disingenuous.
- zaptheimpaler 8y agoThis amounts to what-aboutism. Maybe the VCs are only just as bad as other capitalists but all the concerns about eating an unproven food still stand.
- ivraatiems 8y agoNormally I'm all in favor of extreme skepticism of corporate incentives, especially VC-backed corporations. But this article's premise doesn't make sense to me. The market pressure right now isn't to make these foods extra cheap or extra wasteful, it's to make them at all, period. Neither Beyond Meat nor Impossible existed in any way for most consumers five years ago. Yes, we'll need a discussion around health and regulation - we always need that. But right now I don't see a need to make vegan meat both achieve being decent in quality and availability _and_ a panacea to all our other food-related societal problems. That seems like massive scope creep to me.
- silversconfused 8y agoBloomberg says beware......... Why are these guys not banned from the front page yet?
- goodfight 8y agoBeyond Meat is going to crash hard. The pop for this IPO is too ridiculous.
- ElijahLynn 8y agoThis is false, spoken from someone who has been eating Beyond products since they came out. They will go nothing but up.
- sridca 8y ago> Peddled by Venture Capitalists I laughed out aloud when this reminded me of what pg wrote https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024?lang=en https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024?lang=en