Plant-based meat startups are adding real animal fat to the mix: ‘It didn’t sizzle right, it didn’t smell right, it didn’t have that incredibly fatty taste and mouth feel’ (msn.com)

It’s okay – its lab synthesized “animal” fat added to their lab synthesized fake meat products.

“Asking people to spend more money for worse-tasting products that aren’t healthier than the real thing is not a great way to drive repeat purchase,” Brice Klein, a co-founder of Choppy, told Fortune. “None of these products or companies are really solving a consumer problem, where climate change is an earth problem. But it’s not a consumer problem; you cannot eat values.” 

Fake meat products are a scam. The above article is one of the few that accurately reports that almost no one is a vegetarian, and the percent is slightly down from 20 years ago. Products like Beyond Meat are catering to a tiny sliver of the population, at higher price, and lower taste quality. The business makes little sense.

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