What did you learn about dietary choices from using the footprint calculator? Now imagine that you could translate what you learned into an effective societal policy on food- what would it be? And how would this policy effect the need to alleviate world hunger?
925 million people on earth do not have enough to eat according to the FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization]. That's almost 1 in 7 inhabitants of our planet!
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Would you eat the meat-mimicking "impossible burger"?
What do you all think about these companies doing intense research into making a vegetarian burger that looks and tastes like red meat?
"the company says that switching a quarter-pound beefburger for an equivalently sized Impossible Burger saves as much water as a 10-minute shower, eliminates the greenhouse gases emitted during a 29-kilometre drive in an average car, and frees up around 7 square metres of land. Nutritionally, it contains levels of protein and iron comparable with an average hamburger."
The company decided that the heme protein was the key to red meat flavor. They are producing it from yeast genetically engineered to make lots of heme. Read more here:
I think it is quite interesting and takes the level of an ersatz food to the next level. I am curious though, because of the amount of research that is done on this new type of food, how will we see the costs or these foods when they first hit the market? While I see that it is $16 dollars in 11 restaurants, which is still pushing the cost on a burger, I don't expect that to be the norm, as even if it is environmentally friendly, it should also cost friendly to the average buyer in both the middle class, and lower class markets. I am rather leaning towards the lab-grown beef, as even though it is ambiguous on how it could be mass produced, I think it has more potential, as let's face it, people crave actual beef and not imitated beef.