Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by colechristensen on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:59PM (#18860155)

You don't have to feel guilty. It is the disconnection between humans and animals that causes many of those feelings and if you shift your thinking, you can have a much better experience. When you participate in the process of raising, killing, butchering, and eating the animals which are your food you will appreciate them – love them – and the life they had and gave for you to live. Food encased in plastic from a grocery store really prevents this connection.

Life both begins and ands and you don't have to run away from the end of things or think that making life as long as possible is necessarily better.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by delecti on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:07PM (#18861078)

Unless you can argue that the cows don't mind anything about the way they're treated (including slaughter), then there's reason to feel guilty. If you can live without that (and you can, vegetarians exist), then there's reason to feel guilty about not doing so.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by puranjay on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:28PM (#18862267)

That idea doesn't work for me because I know for a fact that I don't really need meat to live a healthy life. My wife is vegetarian, as are my parents, and they're all healthy and happy. All my nutritional needs can be met with vegetarian alternatives.

I eat meat solely for the taste, which, when I get down to thinking about it, is a shallow and selfish reason

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by devmunchies on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:08PM (#18861705)

I disagree. Once you shift your thinking in the other direction and cherish their life and only eat them if its the only option for survival you will feel greater love and appreciation for animals. I've eaten meat only once in the last 2 years and when I did I actually wept.

> Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. --George Bernard Shaw

https://gist.github.com/samueleaton/cccfd86dcca72bc33f72bdfa...

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by saagarjha on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:50PM (#18862102)

> I've eaten meat only once in the last 2 years and when I did I actually wept.

Sorry to bring this up, but I'm curious as to the circumstances around this. Did you not know you were eating meat? Or did you eat, and realize later that it was incompatible with your ethics?

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by yurishimo on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:37PM (#18861568)

I take a lot of inspiration from Native Americans on this topic. Eating is a part of existing for any organism and without life, there is no energy to transfer. This applies to plants and animals.

Appreciation for the life that was given for my nourishment is important to me and I really take it seriously. I make an effort to not waste any meat I buy and I've definitely shifted to eating less than I used to.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by JCharante on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:16PM (#18861979)

Yes eating is necessary for everything, but keep in mind that we humans can meet our needs solely with plants.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by devmunchies on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:17PM (#18861750)

>is important to me and I really take it seriously

sounds like "we take security very seriously"

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by dsabanin on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:43PM (#18860929)

Do you usually kill all that you love for some fleeting pleasure, when pretty healthy alternatives are available?

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by sc4les on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:21PM (#18860340)

Please don’t love me then

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