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Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n... by tracker1 on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:10PM (#19782135)
That's pretty bad, it isn't like that in other places. In fact it's better for the environment to rotate grazing lands overall. It helps deal with or reverse desertification. It's not much different than how fish farms have been changing to something closer to what nature offers in places.

My single biggest issue with these meat alternatives is I cannot understand why it's costing so much more than actual meat.

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Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n... by yellowapple on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:31PM (#19783218)
> My single biggest issue with these meat alternatives is I cannot understand why it's costing so much more than actual meat.

I'd imagine it's because of the economies of scale; once production ramps up to sufficiently-high volume, the prices should in theory go down. Availability in fast food should hopefully help with that.

Subsidies are another aspect to this, though I don't know offhand how heavily cattle ranching is subsidized v., say, corn or soy.

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