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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by mathieuh on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:22PM (#33783311)
I agree with you, and I think it’s the soya protein. I don’t have any problems with pea protein, but the soya protein makes me feel queasy.

I think those meat replacements are good for people who have just become vegan as they give you a sense of familiarity, but after a while you realise that it’s possible to eat a delicious vegan diet that doesn’t consist of mega-processed things trying to be meat.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by rgrieselhuber on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:48PM (#33783465)
Probably also the pesticides and industrial oils.
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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by fswd on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:10AM (#33783940)
Photos and internal documents from a Beyond Meat plant in Pennsylvania show apparent mold, Listeria and other food-safety issues, compounding problems at a factory the company had expected to play a major role in its future https://trib.al/q1SAHYO

https://twitter.com/business/status/1594742995647070214?ref_...

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by pmarreck on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:26AM (#33784309)
this looks like propaganda
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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by TaylorAlexander on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:04PM (#33783568)
Would that be the same thing I’d find in tofu? Because tofu doesn’t upset my stomach at all.
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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by mathieuh on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:49AM (#33785164)
To be honest I don't know too much about it, but as I understand it tofu is the curd made from soya milk, and soya protein is some form of the processed whole bean. My thinking that it's soya protein is just from the fact that I've tried a few different brands' soya fake burgers and they all give me the same discomfort.

I don't have any ill effects from tofu either.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by ianai on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:38AM (#33785499)
The fake stuff usually lists “textured vegetable protein” or soy protein isolate” or things like that. Those are much more processed than tofu. Tofu is more like a curd in so far as the tofu gets minced then settled out of the water. I think it sometimes gets calcium carbon added.
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