Faux Meat

Reddit has recently moved up to be the third-most-popular platform in the US, after Google and YouTube, so of course, when we were interested to see what non-vegans or plant-based eaters thought of the latest generation of plant-based burgers, we headed on over to a forum called "Meat Eaters of Reddit" and checked out the answers to the question, "What do you think of plant-based meat?"

The only thing more popular than the Impossible and Beyond Burgers these days are the celebrities championing their success. Snoop Dogg has gone full Beyond, driving the company food truck and appearing in the latest Dunkin' commercial promoting the chain's Beyond Breakfast Sausage...

Someone has a beef with plant-based meats. On November 2, USAToday treated readers to an op-ed entitled, “Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change.” The piece, written by Will Coggin, managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), was just one part of a multi-pronged campaign by CCF to undermine consumer’s beliefs in the health and environmental benefits of plant-based meats.

The food fight just entered round two. Last week Burger King let the world know that its Impossible Whopper was the most popular addition to its menu in recent memory, and the brand then hit back against critics of meatless meat. A consumer group called Center for Consumer Freedom run by a former tobacco lobbyist, took out ads in The New York Times with the headline: "What's Hiding in Your Pl

They're going after the label. First, the Dairy Pride Act was introduced into the Senate to make it illegal to label products "milk" or "yogurt" or "cheese" unless they were made from animal milk, so alternatives like almond milk or oat milk would have to find a new name ...

Now that meatless burgers are going mainstream the question is, are they healthy? They may not be as healthy as a whole-food plant-based meal, but meat alternatives are a gateway food to more plant-based eating, which is a good thing.

A founding father of the plant-based movement, T. Colin Campbell, tells what he thinks of Beyond Meat, intermittent fasting, keto for weight loss and why the heck it took so long for us to get the memo that plants are good for us and animal protein is not. Read this before you pick up a fork again.