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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by yumraj on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:12PM (#20868050)
> Fake burgers are a transition and off-ramp for people looking to eat less meat.

This is similar to the argument for vaping vs. smoking, and just yesterday there was report, and have been in the past, about the harm caused by the other chemicals in vaping liquid which IMO may make it worse than smoking.

The question is, are we going to find out soon that the additives in these fake meat burgers are worse (or at least equally bad) for health than real meat?

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by coder4life on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:39PM (#20868352)
Vaping isn't worse than smoking. Take it from a pack a day for 27 years smoker who just started vaping 2 months ago.

I don't wake up any longer coughing so hard the neighborhood can hear it.

There are 1,300 deaths in the US every day from smoking. Are these in the papers? You know the answer to that.

There has been 1 reported death by the CDC from vaping, and people are losing their minds over it.

We don't even know if it was because of vaping; we know that someone got sick, and they smoked a vaporizer.

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by EpicEng on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:59PM (#20868587)
>which IMO may make it worse than smoking.

This stuff isn't subjective. No one with any amount of credibility attached to their name is making that claim, so what's your basis for it?

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by erikpukinskis on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:30PM (#20868240)
The additives are not new. So probably not, but maybe.
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