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 kawsper on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:15PM (#18860750)

According to the ASPCA, over 95% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms[0]:

[0] https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare

According to Dr. Hershaft, a holocaust survivor which has dedicated his life to researching animal rights, it is estimated that less than 1% of the meat in the US are from smallscale family farms, he and his team did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80year...

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by maemilius on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:06PM (#18868295)

According to the ASPCA:

> A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food.

That's an _extremely_ broad definition that says nothing about the condition of the animals.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by deadmetheny on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:50AM (#18874182)

On top of this, that percentage is most likely due the sheer volume of chickens in the world. From what I remember there's something like 750 million head of cattle in the world, and like 18 billion chickens. This doesn't make up for the awful treatment of poultry, but it doesn't really extrapolate to animals like cattle and sheep.

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