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 idiotsecant on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:38AM (#34442248)

I think it's pretty well established that the dietary cholesterol to blood cholesterol link is very strong in some people, very weak in some people, and somewhere in the middle for most people. There are definitely 'hyper-responders' for whom dietary cholesterol is very, very bad. There are also people that can eat dozens of eggs a day and have perfectly normal blood cholesterol. The only way to know how those genetic dice rolled for you is to do a personal study - eat a lot of eggs for a while and see if you start to develop elevated cholesterol.

As an anecdote, I eat on average 8-10 eggs a day. They are my primary source of calories. My blood cholesterol is extremely low, like on the extreme low end of normal on most blood tests (although it is starting to creep up as I get older)

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by noodlesUK on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:56PM (#34443324)

I’m just curious why you would eat 8-10 eggs daily? That seems like a very large number.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by idiotsecant on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:40PM (#34444628)

Because eggs are filling, relatively cheap, and pretty good for you. Especially if you have a body that doesn't do well with high-glycemic index foods and you don't want to eat animal meat.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by pvaldes on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:20PM (#34461567)

meat = animal cells

egg = one animal cell

Technically the same thing

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by User23 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:45PM (#34485566)

I think the main difference is that eating an unfertilized egg doesn't end the life of a viable animal.

I am personally happily eat meat, but I respect people that choose not to kill animals and at least some of them find eating unfertilized eggs to be acceptable.

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Re:Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just ... by idiotsecant on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:27PM (#34494494)

In my personal worldview I view unfertilized eggs as approximately morally equivalent to eating a peanut. In practice it's difficult to make them exactly equivalent but by carefully selecting where the eggs come from you can get closer.

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