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That reply was a little too quick and easy?
But funny nonetheless...
That reply was a little too quick and easy?
You are warped!
That reply was a little too quick and easy?
But funny nonetheless...
I'm not sure local grass-fed beef are any happier about their outcomes than slaughterhouse animals, and how is that better for the environment? It still takes excessive amounts of water and feed per pound of protein vs other protein sources whether they live at Daisy Hill Farms or a Cargill facility.
Again, I'm only saying there is no benign choice.
You are warped!
Not the first time he’s posted about that product. For all we know there’s a real life effort to bring it to market, and he’s on the PR team. . Besides, anything with “green” in the name already has millennials support.
I think there is a moral difference between eating an animal that was given a decent life outside eating what it is built to eat and the monstrosity that is our factory farming system. Yes, they both die in the end, but frankly every living thing does. The life we give them matters.
There is also an environmental difference between raising cattle on pasture and raising them on grain, corn, and soy. Pasture sequesters carbon - tilling farmland to raise crops release it. It is extremely environmentally wasteful to use tilled crops as the primary feed for animals that normally eat grass, IMO.
Also, the environmental impact of growing all that corn and soybean (and rapeseed, etc) acreage (the way it is mostly grown these days, using tons of chemical fertilizer, herbicide, GMO seed, etc) is undoubtedly far worse for the environment than the impacts from grazing cattle on grassland.
That’s the way I see it. Humans have been raising livestock for feed about as long as they’ve been farming grains - up to about 12,000 years ago. Before that humans hunted and trapped for their meat/animal protein. Both involved killing animals for food. Some religions (Judaism, Islam) even have rituals for humane (or somehow less traumatic) killing of livestock. But obviously most livestock is raised to be food. We prefer to buy meat from growers that give their animals a better life if we can. Not so easy in this day and age of mass food production. But we’re not going to stop eating animal protein.I think there is a moral difference between eating an animal that was given a decent life outside eating what it is built to eat and the monstrosity that is our factory farming system. Yes, they both die in the end, but frankly every living thing does. The life we give them matters.
There is also an environmental difference between raising cattle on pasture and raising them on grain, corn, and soy. Pasture sequesters carbon - tilling farmland to raise crops release it. It is extremely environmentally wasteful to use tilled crops as the primary feed for animals that normally eat grass, IMO.
Note that I’m not getting on a high horse here. I eat plenty of McDonald’s burgers. But they are worse for the environment ( and my health ) than other options.
If just impact of "grazing" was all that was involved it wouldn't be such a huge impact but that does not even begin to take into account the impact of beef production. From what I read livestock production may have a bigger impact on the planet than anything else.
It is interesting how people mask food with fake flavors, colors, labels, and sweeteners.
I ask myself, would a lion eat Beyond Meat, would a bee drink diet soda? Hell no.
Would my DH eat Michelina's $10/10, hell yes. Food science at its finest! I'm looking at the protein content, not worth it in this world or the next. Yikes.
I'm not against fish farming, it's just that for Tilapia, they can live in very concentrated settings that I found a bit unsettling. Perhaps I'm just a hypocrite though, since commercial chicken farming does about the same on land and I ignore it and love chicken.
LOL!Beyond Meat has No Competition as a Meatless Burger that taste like a real burger, as it is the only only one that is Non-GMO, Soy Free and Gluten Free burger.
So when you hear that Beyond Meat has some not so good chemicals, it is a big smear campaign by the Meat and Fastfood companies.
Beyond Burger is a certified NON-GMO product. Unlike the Impossible Burger, it does not contain Soy (so no Hexane). It has non-GMO Canola oil. Their Canola oil is 'Expeller Pressed" and not extracted by 'chemical solvents'.
Aside from being 'Soy Free'. They are also 'Gluten Free'.
Beyond Meat has No Competition as a Meatless Burger that taste like a real burger, as it is the only only one that is Non-GMO, Soy Free and Gluten Free burger.
Jut to be complete, here is the full list of ingredients in the "beyond burger":
The Beyond Burger contains:Water, Pea Protein Isolate, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Contains 2% or less of the following: Cellulose from Bamboo, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Natural Flavor, Maltodextrin, Yeast Extract, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Dried Yeast, Gum Arabic, Citrus Extract (to protect quality), Ascorbic Acid (to maintain color), Beet Juice Extract (for color), Acetic Acid, Succinic Acid, Modified Food Starch, Annatto (for color).
I guess people can decide for themselves whether they want to eat something like that or not. As for me......I'll pass.
With my story, which I believe reflects an upbeat story for the company, the value that I obtain for its equity is $3.3 billion, yielding a value per share of about $47. At the end of June 10, when I completed my valuation, the stock price was close to $170, well above my estimated value. What the stock dropped almost $41 on June 11 to $127/share, it still remained over valued.
No really, a bee won't go near a diet coke or fake sugar. They do buzz around my hairspray until they figure out that's chemical stuff too.Similarly, a bee would die of malnutrition from the artificial sweetener that has no calories.
I don't pay much attention to these kinds of stocks but this Damodoran is pretty good at analysis:
Link: Musings on Markets
There are already too many people, and as we focus on how to feed more people, we will just end up with even more people.