Rick Moran
PJ MediaWed, 05 Oct 2022 21:26 UTC
© Davey /@baldrowdy/Twitter"No matter how empty the shelves are of real meat people still won't eat the fake cr*p." - January 17, 2022
Beyond Meat, the company that makes "meat substitutes," is in trouble. According to
Bloomberg, the company's stock has lost 77% of its value over the last year. In fact, all plant-based meat substitutes are losing customer share. Sales of refrigerated meat alternatives at retailers are down 10.5% by volume for the 52 weeks that ended Sept. 4, according to Information Resources, Inc.
One reason for this is their price. With food prices going through the roof, a lot fewer customers are willing to pay a premium for fake meat when the real thing isn't that much more expensive.
And according to Deloitte, there's a cultural resistance at work.
Deloitte believes the industry is suffering from a perception problem. In July, it surveyed 2,000 consumers and found a decline in the belief that plant-based meat is healthier and more environmentally sustainable than meat from animals. (While the environmental credentials of plant-based products compared to their meatier counterparts are well established, the health claims are not.)
Deloitte also suspects that the addressable market may be more limited than previously thought with a growing cultural resistance to its "woke" status — even among those seeking to reduce red meat consumption. Case in point: When Cracker Barrel announced plans to add Impossible Foods' sausage to its menu over the summer, it faced an onslaught of criticism on social media.
It's a twist on the "Go woke, get broke" truism. Beyond Meat and other fake meat companies have proudly been marketing their products to vegans and hip wokesters as environmentally friendly and healthier alternatives to red meat. While the benefits of using plants instead of gas-passing, methane-spewing cattle might be a selling point to some, any health benefits from eating meat substitutes are as yet unproven.
Beyond Meat's woke image also took a hit recently when its Chief Operating Officer, Douglas Ramsey, was suspended after trying to bite a man's nose following an altercation after a University of Arkansas football game.
Just Food:
Douglas Ramsey was arrested on Saturday on charges of "terroristic threatening" and third-degree battery following a University of Arkansas football game in Fayetteville.
The 53-year-old reportedly punched another driver, biting his face and ripping skin from his nose.
Ramsay [sic] was released on Sunday on a US$11,085 bond, Washington County court records show.
He will be replaced in the meantime by Jonathan Nelson, who acted as interim COO at the company between May and November 2021 after almost a decade at plant-based food and beverage producer SunOpta.
The guy was so desperate for real meat that he probably mistook the gentleman's nose for pork sausage.
Comment: Science backing up common sense. GM Watch
reports (footnotes available at link):
The Impossible Burger is a plant-based burger, the key ingredient of which is a protein called soy leghemoglobin (SLH for short), derived from genetically modified (GM) yeast.
[T]he results of a rat feeding study commissioned by Impossible Foods and carried out with SLH suggest that the burger may not be safe to eat.
SLH is the substance that gives the burger its meaty taste and makes it appear to bleed like meat when cut. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initially refused to sign off on the safety of SLH when first approached by the company. The rat feeding study results suggest that the agency's concerns were justified. Rats fed the GM yeast-derived SLH developed unexplained changes in weight gain, changes in the blood that can indicate the onset of inflammation or kidney disease, and possible signs of anaemia.
Potentially adverse effects in SLH-fed rats
In light of these limitations, it is remarkable that the SLH-fed rats did show a large number of statistically significant potentially adverse effects, compared with the control group - for example:
- unexplained transient decrease in body weight gain
- increase in food consumption without weight gain
- changes in blood chemistry
- decreased reticulocyte (immature red blood cell) count (this can be a sign of anemia and/or damage to the bone marrow where red blood cells are produced)
- decreased blood clotting ability
- decreased blood levels of alkaline phosphatase (can indicate malnutrition and/or celiac disease)
- increased blood albumin (can indicate acute infection or damage to tissues) and potassium values (can indicate kidney disease)
- decreased blood glucose (low blood sugar) and chloride (can indicate kidney problems)
- increased blood globulin values (common in inflammatory disease and cancer).[3]
The fact that these changes were seen in spite of the statistical weaknesses of the study (stemming from the short duration and low number of animals in each group) gives particular reason for concern.
Reproductive changes in SLH-fed females?
In the study, apparent disruptions in the reproductive cycle were found in some groups of females fed SLH. In normal healthy rats, the uterus fills up with fluid during the proestrus phase of the cycle, in the run-up to the fertile and sexually receptive phase (estrus). In the SLH-fed rats, significantly fewer "fluid filled" uteri were seen. This correlated with decreased uterus weight, as might be expected.[3]
[...]
In 2019 Impossible Foods introduced a new recipe for its Impossible Burger. In addition to GMO-derived SLH, the burger now contains another GMO ingredient: protein from herbicide-tolerant soy.[6] The company introduced soy protein to replace wheat protein in order to improve the texture and to avoid gluten, the protein in wheat that some people cannot tolerate.[7]
As a result, Impossible Burger Version 2.0 can contain residues of the "probable carcinogen" glyphosate,[8] the main ingredient of the herbicide used on GM soy.
Testing by Health Research Institute Laboratories, commissioned by the advocacy group Moms Across America, found glyphosate at a level of 11.3 ppb. The level was 11 times higher than the Beyond Meat burger, another plant-based burger that is made from non-GMO ingredients.[9] (However, Beyond Meat's crashing stock suggests that the hype over any fake meat product is misplaced.)
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