Impossible foods…?

If you’ve followed my posts here, by now you know I’ve got a pretty liberal mindset.

I feel climate change is a very real danger and we not only should, but need to invest in alternate sources of energy that are more environmentally friendly.  I’m also optimistic and very open to new technologies and hope they offer us a better way of living.

I’m also, it must be noted, a meat eater.

I love meat.

I love steaks.  I love hamburgers.  I love sausage and pork and bacon.

For that matter, I love eating chicken, turkey, and shrimp.

The liberal inside me is, yes, bothered by this.  I don’t want to think about what went into me getting my latest meal, as much as I may enjoy it.

I’ve tried alternate tofu patties, vegan burgers, etc., and found them…lacking.  However, I’m optimistic the industry will, over time, twerk the formula and soon enough we’ll have artificial meats that taste as good as and are healthier than real meats.

Impossible Foods is but one company involved in creating artificial meats and, in this article by Dara Kerr for C/Net, they’re about to expand…

Impossible Foods to supersize production of lab-grown burger

The article is fascinating and this passage from it, in particular, I found very encouraging:

The idea is that not only can these faux meat products be healthier, with less antibiotics and hormones, but that they’re also less resource intensive and more environmentally friendly. For example, Impossible Foods says producing one of its burgers requires only a quarter of the water and 5 percent of the land that making a conventional burger calls for, and that the process emits only 13 percent of the greenhouse gases.

Very encouraging stuff…if Impossible Burgers finally does arrive to my local grocery store, I’ll most certainly give it a try.

Hope it tastes good!