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> From a raw ingredients standpoint plant based food should almost always be cheaper than animal based food Genuinely curious: is it though? I can certainly se
by lhorie 6y ago
> From a raw ingredients standpoint plant based food should almost always be cheaper than animal based food
Genuinely curious: is it though? I can certainly see the strength of the argument if we're merely comparing 1 lb of soy vs 1 lb of beef, but my understanding is that veggie burgers require quite a bit of processing to become "meat-like". It'd be interesting to keep track of cost and environmental impact differences between a low-tech soy-tasting patty vs an impossible burger.
- Broken_Hippo 6y agoI don't know about the ones that are meat-like - that is never my goal (and impossible burgers seem too fatty for my tastes). But I can make something good tasting at home - one of the better ones has brown rice and chickpeas as the main ingredients. I'm going to guess McDonald's veggie burgers will have a decent amount of processing: I don't know how that compares to processing hamburger patties. We are, after all, comparing hamburger patties to pucks of veggie material instead of veggie burgers vs steak.
- SamBam 6y agoImpossible has tried to quantify the total energy and water inputs, and found that their burgers are still only 5% or so of the inputs of meat. Obviously they could be fudging the numbers, but meat is also really, really inefficient.