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These vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it.
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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It isn't about taste, it is about not being able to replace the nutritional value of the meat serving with the Vegan alternative. Vegan food is delicious, but it has issues getting everything you need into your body when replacing things found specifically in meats.
Isn’t Impossible burger meat virtually identical nutritionally as real meat? That’s why it’s not very good for you. Like, burgers aren’t healthy.
This has nothing at all to do with what I am saying.
My point is that articles pushing the flavour narrative are missing the point because it isn't about taste. It is about the fact that being Vegan is expensive as it takes a lot of supplements outside of food consumption to replace what can only be found in meats that the human body requires to survive.
Junk food tastes great, but it isn't good for you. Burgers aren't inherently unhealthy, just like Vegan food isn't automatically healthy.
Idk man, plenty of people survive just fine without eating meat. Multivitamins are incredibly cheap. I eat meat and I still take a multivitamin daily. It’s like $25 for a 6 month supply at Costco. Impossible burgers are about the same price as regular burgers there too. I can make an Impossible burger at home with all the fixings for less than the price of a Big Mac. Maybe you live in a place where these things are really expensive?
There is a difference between surviving and thriving and many people are unhealthy believing they are healthy because of the massive amount of misinformation around general health. I can also make a real burger with real meats and veggies for less than the cost of a big mac. I will be healthier for it compared to your "impossible burger".
Not only are multivitamins basically worthless, they are also expensive. It is nice to hear you have enough money to spend on a healthy diet as well as enough to waste $25 on placebos.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2024/03/18/no-vitamin-d-and-calcium-supplements-still-dont-work/
There is no replacing a healthy diet and a healthy diet unfortunately involves something else dying. If you don't like it get on a mass produced cost effective solution to replace meat without losing any of the things we need from it that also doesn't kill something else.
We can both agree that a healthy diet gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need. The average American diet (of which I suffer) is not a healthy diet. I’m a sucker for junk food, so I probably don’t get enough vitamins and minerals from my diet all the time. My wife cooks healthy meals, but when I have to cook for myself, I tend to just throw something in the air fryer. I think $4 a month is a reasonable price to make sure I still get vitamins and minerals regardless.
I don’t know why you put “impossible burger” in quotes. Impossible is the brand name. It’s like saying Oscar Mayer hot dog.
I hate to break it to you, but burgers aren’t part of a healthy diet. That includes Impossible burgers. If you’re relying on hamburgers to get your necessary vitamins and minerals, you won’t be healthy. You should eat them in moderation, like any junk food.
Your point was that a vegan diet is unhealthy and expensive. You haven’t provided any evidence of this.
The evidence you provided was that multivitamins are unhelpful if you eat a healthy diet. I don’t disagree with that, and I never said otherwise.
You claimed multivitamins are expensive, and I disagreed. I don’t think that $4 a month is expensive. There are expensive multivitamins, sure, but there are also cheap ones.
The other tangential point we seem to disagree on is whether hamburgers are a healthy food option. I consider them junk food. You haven’t provided any evidence to the contrary.
I hope that clears up any confusion.