Plant based meat

[MileHighGrowler]

(06-03-2021, 12:33 PM)grampahol Wrote: Time will be the biggest decider of whether you'll eat plant based foods or not. it may be the market that decides for you if everyone gets out of the slaughtering business even though that one is a very remote possibility. Legislation might also decide at some point, but i think this is all very far down the road in our lives..I doubt it'll ever happen in my life

Anyway, i still eat both meat and fruits and vegetables. i eat a LOT of fruit so I call myself a fruitarian. I had a great steak two days ago, but if I thought I could completely avoid meat products I would, but for now the science and progress in making them taste good just isn't quite there.
I do agree with the idea of fake meat seems like the dumbest idea ever. If you want to be a vegetarian there's plenty of ways to go about that without trying to trick your brain into thinking you're eating something you're not. That's like inventing shoes that try to trick your brain into believing you're riding in a rocket to Mars.. It just doesn't work. I've eaten at restaurants, mostly Indian where everything on the menu is vegetarian.. Some I like, some not.

I could see legislation more than market moving away from having so much meat.  Here in Colorado where there are many cattle ranches, I can tell you they've got no desire to go anywhere, and they're not having trouble at all finding buyers.  Actually, what's happened is more people are starting to look at buying direct from ranchers, because of the cost and quality.  Not everyone has the space or wants to drop $2,500 on a side of beef, but it costs quite a bit less than store prices when considering it's hundreds of pounds of meat, it's butchered to spec and can be some of the highest quality meat anywhere.  And it's not just beef, but pork, poultry and even lamb.  Out west it's not hard to find, and the shift I'm seeing around here is less about reducing meat, and more about changing the sourcing.