Oddbean new post about login | logout At an airport, getting a burger. An Impossible burger (which I am not getting) is 20% more expensive than a real burger. How is that not a scam? Who buys that? Imagine putting plants together and the result is more expensive than beef.
Imagine being some dumb and brainwashed you would pay 20% more for crisco than real raw butter as an example
There’s tons of ingredients in impossible products- mostly industrial oils
perhaps we should let them iterate a few times before passing judgment.
They’re paying for marketing, product engineering, and the feeling of smugness.
I just saw an interesting thought experiment by Neil Degrasse Tyson that takes on veganism. Admittedly it's a bit out there but it's still a compelling point. Tl;dr it's basically that if you imagine a species of sentient space aliens that are plant based in that they do photosynthesis for their energy. If they come and visit earth and see these animals (us) specifically targeting plant matter and their embryos (fruits, nuts, etc), they would see us as horrible creatures. I believe the clip I saw was from his podcast Star Talk.
It’s funny, but to be fair, plants very very certainly have a lower level of consciousness than animals.
Imagine changing something "good for ya" into a form unrecognizable, worse yet into an imitation of something that's "bad for ya". The logic. nostr:nevent1qqs9fj9tngtjsvkv7h8q4xhmlh4pm9nxg7ss6q0u5xzyj3zmc6u8p9qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzp64suatdx2uqhn2xfu7cgjuqgqcrqadp864uxkv6wckf43atj860qvzqqqqqqypkmnle
If it only was plants. https://i.nostr.build/m5O7.jpg
And you paid for it which in turn justified the price, and posted it which may attract more people to pay for it. We are all part of a scam.
Read the post again.
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Did you see this? If you look at people from the Matrix viewpoint (plugged into the propaganda machine) it’s even more frightening. https://damus.io/note1x7j5vy50kvd7tz768ggf7xhut93gh5f8ace6cnj0aq5nee5t9umqpvl5up
They once pulled this trick with lobster (sea bugs) and the results stuck
Just be patient Lyn, the prices are coming down due to some magical efficiencies that the meat industry just doesn’t have. 😂 https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2022/11/08/Does-Impossible-Foods-new-marketing-chief-face-an-impossible-task-to-carry-the-torch-for-plant-based-protein-industry-amid-declining-category-sales?utm_source=copyright&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright https://image.nostr.build/b6ee26dee1a97ed91474f3879a1461b11217059bba20f6675cdb08bf28905e78.jpg
As a vegan that struggles to eat out, especially at restaurants, it’s infuriating to deal with “trendy” upcharges like this.
I don't think it's an upcharge, beyond meat are a loss making company, I assume this fake meat is horribly resource intensive.
Because it’s not about the price for those consuming them
mental illness is expensive.
Really? Try this historical example and see if the answer comes to you. Free cotton (which I am not getting) is 20% more expensive than slave cotton. How is that not a scam? Who buys that?
scam!
It’s ridiculous that it costs more than a regular meat burger. But I would get the Impossible Burger.
They're walking round you and drink bottled water.
That if Big Food manipulating with our existential money and health. Avoid both. Switch to plant based diet.
We switched from animal insulin to human insulin after 1980s, which are 70-300% more expensive with little benefit. We started using expensive selective COX-2 inhibitors for pain, but the older, non-selective ones are safer and equally effective. We gave rosiglitazone to millions of people to manage their type 2 diabetes, which is a curable lifestyle disease, which was expensive and caused heart disease. Why? Because of fiat medicine specifically, and fiat economics more generally. This wasteful system must have been the wet dream of idiots like John Maynard Keynes.
I am curious to know if you have any thoughts on Bill Gates buying up farmland to grow soybeans and such to manufacturer fake food. I might be oversimplifying, but that was the gist as I remember it. I also read about a sort of secret California group buying farmland to raise real animals and grow real crops, likely in response to upcoming Bill Gates food monopoly.
