Fake meat

Ubbquittious

I usually only go to Lidl or Aldi but one day not so long ago I ended up going to Tesco. Couldn't believe how they were promoting the absolute feck out of various forms of fake meat, quorn and all the other brands. They were after creating a separate section for it. It was like there's a huge conspiracy going on to convert everyone to eating it. At this stage I wouldn't be surprised if the European Commission were planning to phase out meat-eating by 2050 or 2060 or some such year way ahead in the distance. The normal sausages only occupied a small section and a good few were out of stock.

Some of this stuff tastes alright to be fair. However the fake black puddings taste closer to the real thing than any of the fake meats do. I don't think I'll be going vegan any time soon and the European Commission better wait till after I'm dead.

Will we all be eating gorse and insects in the future? https://thebadgeronline.com/2022/01/expert-says-protein-from-gorse-bush-could-feed-millions-of-people/

https://theconversation.com/eating-insects-is-good-for-you-and-the-planet-118675

Fallout2022

There's probably horse meat mixed in with it.

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567358#Comment_118567358

I suppose they just horse it in

SamStonesArm

Pffft I'll stick the real stuff and if the impossible happens and they outlaw meat then I'ma become a poacher. That fake shite can piss off for itself.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567358#Comment_118567358

Burgers were nicer when there was horse meat in them..

Archeron

Wait and see Henry Street in a few years. Soylent Green, last of the Soylent Green there love, three lumps for a fiver.

Fallout2022

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567365#Comment_118567365

I'll have a bone to pick with them if they do.

dxhound2005

This is the man to contact. Janusz Wojciechowski

Mister Vain

That quorn stuff is basically bacteria grown in a lab.

Cienciano

Interesting jump from a supermarket selling a product to the EU phasing out meat by 2050. And this all went on in your head on a visit to the shops?

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567497#Comment_118567497

Not just that. The way they were promoting it & the hype surrounding "impossible burgers" , all the US fast food chains are bringing out their meatless versions of food. Meat alternatives are being kept in the news a bit like Climate change but obviously not to the same extent. I'm not saying the EU are definitely doing this , I just said I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to work in the direction of phasing out meat. I'm sure there's all sorts of grants available for you if you want to start developing meat alternatives

Still stihl waters 3

Are people aware you don't have to eat it

Curse These Metal Hands

I can't believe it has its own section in the supermarket. The audacity. When did we start putting different stuff in different sections anyway? I miss the old days when everything was randomly placed around shops, before the libs got their hands on it.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567569#Comment_118567569

I wouldn’t touch it, even if I was a veggie. I’d have the odd veggie meal, and part of me thinks I should go veggie, but then, bacon.........

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567644#Comment_118567644

I wouldn't touch even if I was a vegetable.

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567569#Comment_118567569

You have to try it at least once, otherwise how would you know if it's any good or not.

Actually I did try it once, as a replacement for beef mince for a bolognese. Now I'm the type of person that will eat most things, olives, avocados, things a lot of people have an aversion to, but I though it was gross. Like some vegan sausages I tried recently, uggh.

My thoughts are that 'substitute's' don't work. Maybe there is some way to incorporate quorn into a meal where it isn't a substitute that would have it eatable, but I dunno how to do that.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567569#Comment_118567569

you mean you didn't get the letter from the government?

anyway, best mince we've tried so far was a mushroom based one that the local spar had in briefly. now that there's more competition in the market, the poorer ones seem to have dropped off or had to pull their socks up.

the denny meat free sausages are fine too.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567543#Comment_118567543

Obviously they'll never phase out meat but people eating less meat would be better for the planet given the land usage it takes to create meat compared to vegetables and pulses etc that we can eat.

I mean with the population growing and more and more of the natural world being polluted and destroyed we're not going to get the world in better shape without making a few changes and sacrifices.

Pussyhands

Everyone in the media is "support local" until it comes to meat when it's "STOP EATING MEET, EAT THIS HIGHLY PROCESSED STUFF THAT TASTES LIKE MEAT"

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567701#Comment_118567701

Everyone in the media says not to eat meat and to eat highly processed fake meat? Any examples of this? Everyone in the media really?

magicbastarder

if you want to eat some 'highly processed stuff that tastes like meat', you need go no further than 'normal' sausages.

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567696#Comment_118567696

How is fields occupied with crops better than fields occupied with livestock?

And what's going to happen to the animals? Will we keep some sheep in the zoo? Or let them roam wild?

magicbastarder

and if eating locally grown produce is important too, this is the stuff i mentioned above

https://www.monaghan.eu/products/meat-alternative/

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567731#Comment_118567731

Because you need a lot less land to live off crops than you do for livestock and their feed, therefore you could give a lot of land back to nature.

The animals are slaughtered anyway so you could just put them out of their misery.

kowloon

If grown meat ever rivals the real stuff I'll be on board, but I've tried it a few times in different places and not one of the alternatives tasted much like meat of any variety that I've had. It's almost like they keep getting people who don't like meat to develop it or something. The texture is always way off too. I can see there coming a time when the cost of meat and the quality of the fake stuff come to an intersection and people say good enough.

freshpopcorn

It's good to see the usually suspects in the vegan thread!

freshpopcorn

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567696#Comment_118567696

This is true, but it does mean there is a Prolonged Period of Suckage (PPoS) ahead for most of us and this will last decades or perhaps centuries, while we knuckle down to obey whatever rules the EU Commission or other overlords throw at us in the hope of preserving the environment. All while they keep telling us to move over in the bed for all the poor craythurs they intend to import from Africa and elsewhere.

There is no light at the end of the tunnel for any of this. What % of the world population would have to go before we (or should I say those who remain) no longer have to worry about these things? 60%?

Fallout2022

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567731#Comment_118567731

Think it's efficiency of nutrition/energy/calories per hectare.

Plant based agriculture uses less land.

goldenmick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567657#Comment_118567657

It could have been arranged if "facekicker" was still on the boards 😁

You cant beat a good old banger.

Have any of you tried these ready cooked frozen sausages (Walls) that you just zap in the microwave for 90 seconds? I bought a pack, but there was something about them - just didn't taste the same as freshly fried or grilled sausages.

Cienciano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118567543#Comment_118567543

Guess why burger king and mcdonalds sell them? Because people want to buy them. Interesting that to think 2 of the biggest companies in the world that are based around beef are involved somehow in trying to get it banned. Next you'll be telling us Michael O'Leary is trying to get airplanes banned