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[–] 106 points 1 year ago

"we don't know... they just are." Could be a slogan for the whole meat industry.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Made from vegetarian cows.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Its from Viz magazine! One of the UKs funniest and most sarcastic publications of all time.

    https://uk.pinterest.com/raadax/viz-adverts/

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    That's the most vegan beef I've seen

    Disappointed there's no nut in it

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So, if the steer dies of old age, surrounded by loved ones, would the beef be vegan? Sounds like the only 'logic' that could work for the ad.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Abbatoir Rd is a nice touch.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    We had this in texas but it's illegal now.

    I think it's illegal in six other states too.

    Reasons stated: Protect the economics of the cattle industry and to protect public health

    No more beyond steak tips in my pasta, For the good of public health and to support the sale of real cow meat that I already never buy...

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    Growing meat cells in a lab and selling them as food is illegal in the states you reference.

    What Beyond does in processing plant material into something that resembles some meat products is still legal everywhere.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Plant based "meats" are legal in Texas. Lab grown meat is not. Beyond is safe.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, they’re not. They just filed for bankruptcy protection.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ok, safe from being banned in Texas, not safe from shitty business strategy

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Good to see the users here are as good at recognising a joke as they've ever been.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Alpha-Gal is coming for you...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank goodness it doesn't contain genuine feces, only vegan feces.

    Right? Right? 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Okay so on 'is poop vegan', I'll start: civet coffee. Is it still vegan?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s a fucking joke, you idiots, how are so many of you this dense?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    That's how you convert me.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well... the patty is made of 100% vegan cow, therefore, vegan meat.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Made out of 100% real vegetarians" was the old joke

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean... teeeeechnically beef is what a giant bovine turns plants into.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    this is just dumb and I'm not even vegetarian or vegan. It reminds me of the kind of stuff this shitstain I went to school with would say, repeatedly and loudly to make sure as many people as possible heard him.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    Well, carrion would be vegan, no?

    If that animal was to die of natural causes, like sickness, lightning strike, old age, heart attack, etc. it could be considered vegan

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is that how it works? In that case I have some business ideas ...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Some do consider it vegan, same as the "freegan" subset. There's even at least one influencer who is a bit infamous for it But there's also a few problems with this line of reasoning. It still normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products, so it's a slippery slope at best. It's also not scalable, as soon as probably even a modest proportion of people would adopt such a diet, demand would quickly start to surpass supply which would incentivise the artificial production of more road kill.

    And then there's just the why? of it. Like if we're talking about extreme situations like starvation and poverty where there is literally no other choice, okay that would make sense. But otherwise, what is so wrong with eating plants that someone would go out of their way to eat carrion instead? With the likely putrefaction involved we are talking about literal self harm to avoid eating some good ol grains and beans.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products

    Consumption of animal products is normal. For thousands of years.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I was talking about normalization in the sense of what psychologically feels normal to a given person in question; not about what's popular. As vegan even the thought of eating an animal product is utterly bizarre and grotesque to me. You gotta take off those blood-tinted glasses to see clearly.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    As vegan even the thought of eating an animal product is utterly bizarre and grotesque to me

    Sounds like a "you" problem.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Nah, being vegan is great. It's all the animal abusers who are the problem.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    animal abusers

    Who are you are talking about, sweetie? 😂

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Anyone who consumes or otherwise uses animal products.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Try "deluded" 🤣🤣🤣 Matches evangelical vegans like yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    So it's deluded to recognize that factory farms would literally not exist if it weren't for the insane amount of demand there is for those products, from 98% of the population in western countries?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    No, deluded to think there is anything wrong with eating animal products, sweetie 😂

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    deluded to think there is nothing wrong with eating animal products, sweetie.

    Fixed that for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Says the person who thinks this is normal.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Eating meat is normal. And tasty. Stick to your weeds and stop lecturing people how to live their lives.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's normal to forcibly breed a sentient being into existence, keep them in torturous and painful confinement wallowing in their own excrement for their entire life, and then cut that already traumatized life far short of their natural lifespan by sending them to a slaughthouse to be brutally murdered by a low-paid worker who themself is almost certainly going to develop ptsd from this job, but which they are desperate to keep because they need the money, and are likely to be an immigrant or minor?

    If your lifestyle is awful, you're going to keep hearing about it.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    If your lifestyle is awful, you're going to keep hearing about it.

    Cry me a river, sweetie 😂😂😂

    In a meantime I will cook my steak.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it's amusing how people like you seem to think this really tired old joke about owning the vegan, by emphasizing the eating of animal flesh, does anything other than make you sound like a psychopath.

    "Oh try to reduce the amount of animal suffering and abuse in the world, will ya?! What if I intentionally abuse even more animals?!" 🤡

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Made with 100℅ real vegetarians!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    As a vegan I actually don’t want it to taste exactly like meat — that’s just creepy and gross.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    As a vegetarian I do want it to taste like meat. That's how you get more people to try veggie meals.

    Source: me with my family.
    My immediate family now eats less meat due to liking the stuff I have, and more veggie stuff in general.

    Some even prefer the 'meat' burgers -Beyond, Aldi plant based etc- over their old beef burgers.
    They wouldn't have even thought of trying them and be converted if they weren't any "creepy and gross" alternatives.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As someone who currently eats meat but trying to reduce consumption for environmental reasons, I 100% want a vegan burger that tastes like the real deal

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you try veggie burgers every now and then to see where it's at, at least?

    Because some of them really are good. Or decent at least. Some are less than delicious, but eh.

    Definitely they're improving all the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I do actually, the beyond burger era has been pretty good for upping the game but they're not quite there yet IMO

    I'm completely with you that they're improving though, I think the smash burger style is gonna get there soon

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, definitely improved a ton in the previous decade or so. They're not quite "there" if you want a burger for like a nice, thick, greasy medium patty in the middle. Like if you want to focus on the meat at all, then yeah, they're not there.

    But.. if you just want like a fastfood type of burger with more toppings than patty, like a Whopper or something, then I'd say they pretty much are there.

    I don't remember if it's exactly the beyond meat that burger king uses, but they have a nice vegan patty. One time they had Whoppers on offer, 3€ a piece, vegan and beef. Max 5 per person. I ordered 3 vegan and 2 beef I think. We ate them with my brother, and couldn't tell which was which. Turns out we probably had only them vegan burgers, but eh, didn't seem to matter that much.

    So for replacing one of those thin, well done mcd/burger king generic patties? I think they're there. For replacing a patty made out of fresh meat and done to a proper medium? Yeah, they're not there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    creepy and gross.

    We are talking burger here, not your genitals.

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