Re:Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp
by throwanem on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:03PM
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It wouldn't surprise me if this were less about saving the planet and more about hedging against the possibility that factory farming ceases to be sustainable such that prices for real meat increase enormously. Such a circumstance would create a huge new market for relatively inexpensive meat substitutes, competing on palatability probably far more than nutrition.
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Re:Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp
by DoreenMichele on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:08PM
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Yes, someone with more business sense than me who is also more invested in turning a profit smells money. That's basically the real reason it gets done.
If people really want to save the planet and eat less meat as part of that goal, there are better ways to achieve that. But those ways tend to be harder to monetize effectively than creating a product that inflexible, overprivileged people will snap up and feel virtuous about.