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If I can get a burger that tastes just like a regular meat burger, but didn't require a cow to die, that's a win in my book, and I'll even happily pay a small p
by henrikschroder 7y ago
If I can get a burger that tastes just like a regular meat burger, but didn't require a cow to die, that's a win in my book, and I'll even happily pay a small premium for that. So there's the ethical perspective of it.
In the long term, plant-based meat substitutes should be cheaper to produce than actual meat, and if you can get a burger that tastes just like a regular meat burger, but is cheaper, that's also a win. Burger King already features the Impossible Whopper, but at a premium. If that becomes cheaper than a regular meat Whopper, a lot of people, and a lot of other fast food chains will follow. So that's the economical perspective of it.
- geddy 7y agoIt will be cheaper eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later. The only reason meat is as cheap as it is at the moment is because government subsidies on corn keep it that way. If we really paid the true cost including all of the water used to produce the grain and all that, it would be far more prohibitively expensive.