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Re:The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat by Turing_Machine on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:10PM (#16409070)
Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?

Obviously not the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/have-a-me...

I'm really not sure what's supposed to be so bad about quorn.

Yeah, it's a fungus. So what? We eat lots of different kinds of fungi. Mushrooms, obviously. Yeast. The mold on various types of cheese. Asian comestibles like sake, soy sauce, tempeh...miso. The list goes on.

I agree that it shouldn't be marketed as a "plant food" -- fungi are not plants. They're their own kingdom entirely.

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Re:The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat by tom_mellior on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:57AM (#16411885)
> I agree that it shouldn't be marketed as a "plant food"

It isn't, though. It's only this article's author that harps on and on about plants.

> fungi are not plants.

Exactly. The same author who harps on about plants in the context of Quorn also accuses the public of being scientifically illiterate.

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