As a vegetarian and sometimes vegan for over 15 years, I’ve been amazed by the recent development in meat replacements, like beyond and impossible and hundreds of others. I wonder if faked meat can get so good to remove the lab meat market. At least for burgers i think this already is true.
Not vegan but I’ve been going through a lot of meat replacement by sheer curiosity.
A lot of them tasted to me pretty close to run fo the mill “meh” meat. But to be honest, I don’t crave mediocre meat, and somewhat feel like the vegetables used for these ersatz might have actually tasted better than the end result. I still look forward good quality, well prepared meat.
I think a lot of people wouldn’t mind switching to other protein sources that don’t taste like meat at all for everyday/every meal intake, and have actual delicious meat at rarer occasions at higher cost.
Basically, I am not sure our best shot is to try to replace meat with fake meat, and would assume most people wouldn’t bother with meat as much if the price even just reflected the environmental impact.
