It needs to lead the way as cheap protein & better instruction on how to cook it..
Anyone wondering what its constituent components are this is a good video...
The Beyond Burger really does pander to emulating appearance & texture compared to meat in order to attract the cross-over consumer, I hope they do simply lower the price, ease off the gas of investors demand for blood ((assumed massive profits as a breakthrough & market dominating product) as the bull market has caused a metric 5h1tonne of the problems associated with the "like meat" market.
I hope to see a minimal change in the recipe structure (it is faffy) & deliver sales by a massive surge in sales from a lower price point, god kows we need to lower our meat consumption & this, cooked well is painless I promise you.
The packaging strip down for recycling needs to be looked at by other manufacturers, it is common sense strip separation.
Apologies for the annoying yank woman's voice!
Re: Sales at vegan burger maker Beyond Meat fall by almost a third
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 1:50 pm
by Stinsy
Not a surprise to me. There is nothing about this kind of factory-produced food that is healthy for either the people that eat it or the planet.
Just eat real food. How hard is that?
Re: Sales at vegan burger maker Beyond Meat fall by almost a third
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:33 pm
by Mr Gus
It is processed, but you have to look with clearer sight, as often spoken about.
Stinsy, there are millions of westerner inepts for whom cooking is something grandma did (but not this lot)
There are millions of people eating processed foods every day, this is another, but it isn't meat & is less taxing on the planet,
Rome was or wasn't built in a day? which was it & why?
Yesterday, because we couldn't get everything we needed in a small shop foodwise we ventured into "hated, dumb, rude tesco" (local to us) as it was 500 metres away & getting late.
I picked up 2 kg of chicken thighs (£4.50) to cook portion for the dogs.
Whilst at the chiller (with doors left open my cretins) 3 girls in their 20's rocked up (clearly a house share situation doing shopping) they picked 1.4 / 1.6kh of chicken breast fillets to cook ..at around £11 mark, ..& moaned about the price, I mentioned the price weight & typically more flavoursome meat on the chicken thighs with merely one bone to remove...
"I won't eat anything with bones in" says dumb girl.
"So you've never cooked a whole chicken then? ..most cost effective way of getting an easy assortment of cuts" ..I asked dumbfounded.
"That's right, I won't eat it"
FFfffffffffark I thought.
Increasingly we are up against monumental, crass stupidity, for which we have to make life adjustments around these incompetent a-holes (paracetamol, cold & flu tablets being my staple go to example)
A beyond burger, which you know I love, is potentially leading a hoss to water & getting it to drink.
The old "if we all took one day off meat" we'd save "X" ..& if we valued well raised livestock for slaughter more etc..
Not enough people complain about junk burgers (we've all stumbled across em) ...but just like EV versus ICE I get pissed off hearing the argument against not cardboard meat alternatives ..how much of the high street food vendors are as "au naturel" & properly produced as you yourself want? answer, not enough, & pitifully few, if any big chain is looked at right? so it's a non starter but it is also how the world sadly operates, we are better off tempering meat, & eating more veg, & introducing more veg even under other guises than not, because the gormless haven't a clue how to microwave a stalk of broccoli even though they spend so much time head in "the cloud" (connected variety)
Go try one (not at mc donalds, & do it justice when cooking it) then talk to me with a better understanding of it & how it may fit in a society that demands cheap meat off the back of everything else. land, water, welfare standards, hygiene practises, shipping, carbon footprint etc.
It's not perfect, but not much is, & things cannot stay "as is" same right?
If It displaces 40% of the meat (estimated) that I may otherwise eat in a week & add variety to my diet without hardship, that is positive surely as it is chipping away at overall consumption etc, just like every watt dropped in an energy heavy home.
Re: Sales at vegan burger maker Beyond Meat fall by almost a third
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:40 pm
by Mr Gus
NB, that girl, prime candidate to go on an outdoor survival show, ...comedy gold & viewing figures, water cooler chat etc.
Re: Sales at vegan burger maker Beyond Meat fall by almost a third
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:21 pm
by AGT
I’ve never seen these burgers in my local butcher shop?
Will need to ask him about them
The only packaging from him, is the little plastic bag he puts them in, and a piece of sellotape to seal the bag.
