As a long-time Foodie, Personal Chef and Baker, nutrition researcher, and advocate for NATURE, this foolishness about Fake Meat is exactly that: Foolishness.
Don’t be taken in. If you don’t want to eat meat for whatever reason, that’s up to you, and I do suggest you do your homework with that, but if you’re over 18, you’re a big girl or big boy, and have the right to do as you please with your own body. I will say, though, that it’s very difficult to get the kind of protein needed, and enough of it, without eating some animal “products,” even just eggs or cheese, which never hurt any critter. I know this is a hot-button topic for some, and I respect everyone’s feelings and opinions, whether I agree with them or not.
I have strong feelings about how animals that provide sustenance for humans are treated, and I do believe there are a lot of changes that need to happen. Animals are innocent of human kinds of nastiness, and they deserve respect and good treatment. I see our mistreatment of animals as coming from the same spiritual sickness that causes us to mistreat each other, even children.
I am skimming over this subject, which has potential for much discussion, and I welcome that discussion (but please be civil!). I just want to present it, along with this article, in order to give a bit of a warning, and to bring our attention to yet another thing that is floating around posing as something other than what it is, and to encourage thoughtfulness and investigation. And as a serious lover of all kinds of critters, I am a Staunch Defender of cruelty-free dealings of any kind regarding our fellow Earth Beings.
https://civileats.com/2022/04/07/op-ed-fake-meat-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis/
I get the right ump when anyone claims human action will solve "the climate crisis". Nobody has been able to convince me that we have such a thing and even if we did, that we would be able to do anything about it.
When I was a kid I learned that plants love CO2 and they convert it into an oxygen rich atmosphere for us. Mighty decent of them! For the life of me I cannot figure out why we are supposed to be afraid of CO2 now.... there are genuine pollutants to worry about that nobody wants to acknowledge; there are ship tracks and chemtrails full of nasties that nobody wants us to notice; there are toxins tossed into the oceans, plastic microfibres in fabrics, battery acids leaking in landfills and gawd knows how much muck in our drinking water!
But we are supposed to imagine that reducing animal husbandry is a solution to the terrors of CO2?
Nah. Bill Gates and his loony mates can do one.... eat as much fake protein as they like and upload their limited cognition to a toy computer somewhere if they must. Just as long as they learn that their eugenics won't convince anyone in this century any more than it did in the last.
Stupidity must be in their genes, there is no other feasible explanation.
Fake meat also requires a huge displacement of wildlife to grow it.