Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just Another Fad

Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by whazor on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:09AM (#34439472)

In a podcast I heard that The Vegetarian Butcher initially had experimental biological degradable packaging, but after buying hundreds of thousands they all went bad, and had to be thrown out. Now they use plastic packaging and they only try to solve one problem at a time.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by cduzz on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:42AM (#34439692)

Didn't our ancestors just use paper for such things? Or cloth?

I guess lots of them died of dentistry before getting to oregon, but still.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by enobrev on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:51AM (#34439749)

Killer cavities or misspelling of "dysentery"?

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by dfxm12 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:55AM (#34439795)

Knowing that the dentists of the early-mid 19th century were mostly trained as barbers, probably both.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by openplatypus on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:52AM (#34439757)

Dysentery?

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by AstralStorm on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:50AM (#34440216)

Waxed paper, usually. It is not nearly close to biodegradable. It requires specific yeasts yo be present in the soil or the paper will remain for a very long time. Also waxed fabrics and glass or ceramic jars.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by stavros on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:06AM (#34439869)

This sounds weird to me, it was a surprise to them that biodegradable packaging biodegraded?

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by wongarsu on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:25AM (#34439998)

The general assumption is that biodegradable materials biodegrade under conditions different from regular use and storage, or over long timeframes. The timber in your house is biodegradable, but if you keep it dry it will last a century or so. Packaging that biodegrades in regular storage isn't nessesarily bad, but surprising

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by stavros on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:29AM (#34440021)

Ah, it was a storage issue? That's interesting, thank you.

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