Impossible Pork

The environmental problems don't come from cattle or pork or palm trees themselves, they're caused by massive industrial levels of production that modern civilization needs. To truly substitute pork this industry will have to become as massive as the pork meat industry is now. And that means, among other things, a huge increase in already high demand for coconut and palm tree oil - which will certainly reflect in 3rd world countries jumping the wagon and clearing even more rain forests, and even more rare species will be endangered. So we just replace one problem with another.

I really like Beyond Meat hot Italian sausage, think the Beyond Meat burgers served with all the trimmings are good, and the Impossible Burgers at Burgher King are OK.<p>I welcome Impossible Pork, looking forward to trying it.<p>I am one of those weird people who doesn’t like to eat inhumanly raised animal products, but I just don’t care what other people choose to eat.

With the majority (&gt;50%) of the calories in these meat replacements coming from Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Canola Oil and possibly other... not so great high fat ingredients, I worry about these products from a health perspective.

So I&#x27;ve been vegetarian for nearly 10 years. I tried an impossible burger for the first time last week. I liked it, but found it to be a bit disturbing because the texture reminded me of eating actual meat. I want to have vegetarian food which is nutritious, has good taste, has good texture, and doesn&#x27;t remind me of meat. So I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll stick with the impossible brand, since it fails on that last measure.<p>Edit: To elaborate a bit, I think foods like this may fall in an unfortunate valley where they are too similar to meat to please some vegetarians but insufficiently similar to meat to please some meat eaters. I tried the impossible burger because I had heard some complaints from meat eaters that it was not &quot;meaty&quot; enough for them - meaning it might not be too &quot;meaty&quot; for me.

Considering the damage that ultra-processed foods have already caused to humanity, and considering how new this kind of thing is, I&#x27;ll stick with real meat and other whole foods until I&#x27;ve seen a decade-long study showing that these alternatives are safe.

Very excited to try this. Impossible burgers are amazing, way better than beyond burgers. And Dunkin donuts Beyond sausage is not very good, so I&#x27;d love to try impossible instead.

Maybe a vegan sausage patty could be more easily convincing - they usually have lots of binders and spices anyway. Beyond Meat&#x2F;Impossible Burger were disgusting to me (compared to regular beef), and they were dyed bright red and stayed bright red when they were cooked which is weird and not like meat.<p>My favourite (chain fast food) non meat burger option so far has been the one that McDonalds recently released in New Zealand - it&#x27;s a deep fried, crumbed mashed potato patty with other vegetables in it too. Doesn&#x27;t pretend to be meat but is delicious.

I went vegan 6 months ago.<p>I tried a Beyond Burger for the first time last night (and again tonight). I wasn’t expecting this, but: it looks like a burger, it cooks like a burger, it smells like a burger, and it tastes like a burger (including texture).<p>That said, I will likely never buy it again, and have no interest in trying new products from Impossible Foods.<p>My main problem with it is the lack of clarity around how healthy engineered foods like the Beyond Burger really is. Sure, it doesn’t have the cholesterol of real meat, but is a heavily processed alternative really any better?

I’ve always found Impossible’s “versioning” scheme amusing.<p>One of my favourite burger joints recently shifted from offering Impossible v2 to v3 for their patty, as v3 supposedly resembled meat more closely.<p>However, I thought that v2 tasted much better while avoiding the “uncanny valley” of meat substitutes... I wish they would keep them all available rather than phasing out older versions.

I&#x27;m curious what will happen when we will be able to grow &quot;just&quot; meat (like organs), without cows&#x2F;pigs&#x2F;chicken (I believe that we will be able to achieve this). Will the people who refuse to eat meat now due to ethical concerns, still refuse to eat it.

So, someone has to ask... is Impossible Pork kosher?

Can we stop trying to replace every last natural source of calories with some combination of soy, corn, perfume, salt, sugar, and vegetable oil?

Pork is very important for the Chinese market.

I get the appeal of making something familiar to consumers, but will we ever see an Impossible product with a flavor that they claim tastes <i>different from and better than</i> any existing pork or beef product?

When you think about it, pork allegedly tastes like human. I wonder how hard it is to get to impossible long pork. The marketing challenges would only be similar to getting halal&#x2F;kosher eaters to try impossible pork.

Wake me up when the prices at the supermarket are comparable with actual pork...

I wonder if you could make Impossible Crackling. One of the Danish classics is something called flæskesteg, which gets really good if you have the skin done right so that it&#x27;s crispy.

I&#x27;ve had the Beyond Sausage at Dunkin Donuts. It was acceptable, but actually more spiced than you normally ever get from a sausage patty — probably to cover up for other deficiencies.

There is a desperate need for a truly healthy meat alternative, without the inflated sodium&#x2F;preservatives and fat.<p>Why are beyond&#x2F;impossible not investing in a healthier alternative

Are there laws around imitation foods that would prevent this from being called &quot;Pork&quot; in any countries?

Contains soy, so thanks, but no, thanks.

My wife is allergic to pork so I can somewhat appreciate this... otherwise I don’t get it, if you want to eat plants just eat plants. But hey if they are making money well, I get that!<p>Though I always wondered if the animal rights type of vegetarians eat this stuff, I would suppose they consider it a grotesque display or a mockery to dress up plant matter as animal murder.