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As a long-time meat eater, I find Impossible to be a passable substitute for ground beef in a lot of dishes. If they can get the end user price under control,
by sokoloff 3y ago
As a long-time meat eater, I find Impossible to be a passable substitute for ground beef in a lot of dishes.
If they can get the end user price under control, they could displace a whole lot of beef consumption. At the current price point, it’s not nearly worth it on a taste or economic value comparison with 80% ground beef.
- Animats 3y agoIt seems more like they price it high because they can. The process isn't expensive. A 68,000 square foot plant makes a million pounds a month, says the company. It's not like lab-grown meat, which is a slow, expensive process. Amusingly, Impossible's ground beef like product was getting rave reviews from prominent foodies at first. It first appeared only at expensive restaurants. Then they got Burger King to sell it. Only then was there criticism.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoYou know how the working conditions in so many meatpacking plants are abysmal, like how Tyson Foods is always making headlines for some heinous shit? I wonder if conditions in Impossible plants are better by default. Fewer occupational hazards or whatever.
- katbyte 3y agoIt is likely far more automated requiring fewer people then butchering
- in_cahoots 3y agoA single Beyond Meat plant last year was found to have mold, listeria, and rodents. I wouldn’t be so sure that working conditions are much better. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-21/beyond-meat-plants-dirty-conditions-revealed https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-21/beyond-mea...
- Klonoar 3y agoBeyond and Impossible are very different companies.
- in_cahoots 3y agoHow so?
- kjkjadksj 3y agoBlame your restaurants. Burger king has figured out how to sell you two impossible kings for $7. The only reason why people still ask for another $4 to swap out the sysco patty on your $12 brewpub burger is because they can and you are used to it.
- jahnu 3y agoIf only we subsidised this as much as we subside meat production. Or perhaps subsidise nothing. Either way it’s not yet a level playing field.
- jononomo 3y agoWhy do you think we subsidize meat production? Isn't it sugar and soybeans that we subsidize?
- paulcole 3y ago70% of soybeans grown in the US go to feed livestock.
- s0rce 3y agoIn the west we subsidize water which indirectly subsidizes beef production.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI guess awarding the original water rights might now be seen as a subsidy, in the same way as giving away land for homesteading, but that happened a long time ago. That’s not an ongoing subsidy.
- jahnu 3y agoCheck out how massive the subsidy difference is https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/gigantic-power-of-meat-industry-blocking-green-alternatives-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/gigantic...
- 0_____0 3y agoTheir sausage has already done this. It's almost a dollar cheaper than Jimmy Dean at my local, and the Impossible stuff is indistinguishable from pork sausage.