There has been some research to make products that are compatible with veganism e.g. lab-grown meat. The latest technological discovery in the news was ‘meaty rice’
Disclaimer: I also eat meat since I don’t trust my intestines to fully rely on plant-based nutrients. I do, however, think there is merit to how the industrialization of farming has been destroying the environment, especially with the excess of methane from cattle.
I have a better solution to get a meaty taste that is 100% practical and actually being used for millions of years, even before humans existed: Just eat meat.
It’s not necessarily the meaty “taste”. Many people have health complications with their digestive systems (one example I can think of is Celiac’s) that can make it near-impossible to get nutrients from plant-based food. If you can grow meat in the lab, you can get animal-sourced nutrients without hurting animals (for vegans) nor large resources that are typically used for climate-damaging meat industries (for everyone)
I know a medicine for diseases like that and you can get it pretty much everywhere, it’s called “Just eat meat”, it’s been working for millions of years.
I was raised pescatarian and started eating a little bit of meat in university, it was pretty good. I could definitely understand the hype, meat was pretty delicious. But for me personally, I just don’t get the craving for it. Eventually I just ended up going back to a near vegan diet because it’s what I like to cook, and it’s so cheap. I’m not vegan, but 99% of what I’ve cooked at home in the last 10 years is.
However, I was craving charcoal chicken for like two weeks straight, so the other day my friends and I rode down to the place everyone goes to. We made a proper day of it with our bikes and picnic blankets. The chicken was cooked perfectly, really moist and falling off the bone. The seasoning on the skin was delicious, I can see why that place is so popular.
But the chicken had no flavour of its own.
Taste wise, it could have been anything cooked with the seasoning rub over the charcoal spit. A block of tofu would have had the same flavour.
Texture is the only unique experience, and I’m sure there will be a brand of meat replacement out there that has nailed the texture (but not nailed the taste) so it really isn’t long now until there are viable alternatives. I haven’t really tried many meat replacement products because I’m allergic to potato and e160c and those two ingredients are in a surprising number of vegan packaged proteins.
I was disappointed with my chicken. I thought maybe I’d over sold it in my mind, as my friends confirmed that yup, this is good chicken, I’m being picky. But when I said “it’s just not as good as I remember from uni” and then my friends did a full 180° and agreed that yes, in the last 10 years since I’ve had chicken like this, meat quality has gone downhill, and chicken isn’t good anymore, but what we were eating was good chicken, and that they all still like chicken, even though it’s disgusting by direct comparison.
Now I’m curious how different the quality is between home raised chickens vs store bought chicken meat. Because it’s got to be insane, even if both birds are the same species of heart attacks on legs.
My brother raised chickens and we went to his place for a dinner with one of the chickens he raised. It was probably the best chicken I have ever had. The store chicken barely holds a candle.
Now this was probably over 10 years ago, and I know the farm chickens have “improved” but the improvements are more… for production. Not for quality and taste.
Veganism is not technology. Also meat tastes delicious for most of the regular population. Proceeds to nom a chicken
There has been some research to make products that are compatible with veganism e.g. lab-grown meat. The latest technological discovery in the news was ‘meaty rice’
Disclaimer: I also eat meat since I don’t trust my intestines to fully rely on plant-based nutrients. I do, however, think there is merit to how the industrialization of farming has been destroying the environment, especially with the excess of methane from cattle.
We should be focusing on making orbital platforms where to keep the cattle so they don’t pollute rather than not focusing on non space stuff. Smh.
I have a better solution to get a meaty taste that is 100% practical and actually being used for millions of years, even before humans existed: Just eat meat.
It’s not necessarily the meaty “taste”. Many people have health complications with their digestive systems (one example I can think of is Celiac’s) that can make it near-impossible to get nutrients from plant-based food. If you can grow meat in the lab, you can get animal-sourced nutrients without hurting animals (for vegans) nor large resources that are typically used for climate-damaging meat industries (for everyone)
I know a medicine for diseases like that and you can get it pretty much everywhere, it’s called “Just eat meat”, it’s been working for millions of years.
Meat used to taste delicious.
I was raised pescatarian and started eating a little bit of meat in university, it was pretty good. I could definitely understand the hype, meat was pretty delicious. But for me personally, I just don’t get the craving for it. Eventually I just ended up going back to a near vegan diet because it’s what I like to cook, and it’s so cheap. I’m not vegan, but 99% of what I’ve cooked at home in the last 10 years is.
However, I was craving charcoal chicken for like two weeks straight, so the other day my friends and I rode down to the place everyone goes to. We made a proper day of it with our bikes and picnic blankets. The chicken was cooked perfectly, really moist and falling off the bone. The seasoning on the skin was delicious, I can see why that place is so popular.
But the chicken had no flavour of its own.
Taste wise, it could have been anything cooked with the seasoning rub over the charcoal spit. A block of tofu would have had the same flavour.
Texture is the only unique experience, and I’m sure there will be a brand of meat replacement out there that has nailed the texture (but not nailed the taste) so it really isn’t long now until there are viable alternatives. I haven’t really tried many meat replacement products because I’m allergic to potato and e160c and those two ingredients are in a surprising number of vegan packaged proteins.
I was disappointed with my chicken. I thought maybe I’d over sold it in my mind, as my friends confirmed that yup, this is good chicken, I’m being picky. But when I said “it’s just not as good as I remember from uni” and then my friends did a full 180° and agreed that yes, in the last 10 years since I’ve had chicken like this, meat quality has gone downhill, and chicken isn’t good anymore, but what we were eating was good chicken, and that they all still like chicken, even though it’s disgusting by direct comparison.
Now I’m curious how different the quality is between home raised chickens vs store bought chicken meat. Because it’s got to be insane, even if both birds are the same species of heart attacks on legs.
My brother raised chickens and we went to his place for a dinner with one of the chickens he raised. It was probably the best chicken I have ever had. The store chicken barely holds a candle.
Now this was probably over 10 years ago, and I know the farm chickens have “improved” but the improvements are more… for production. Not for quality and taste.