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_BreakingGood_ t1_j6ogxf5 wrote

Reply to comment by Heatbeat in The possible has happened to Impossible burger - Laying off 20% staff by greenskew

Impossible was never about the animals. That might be priority number 30 on their list of top 30 priorities.

An impossible burger takes something like 99% less water, 90% less power, generates 99% less emissions, results in 99% less deforestation (much of the beef industry is deforesting the amazon rainforest too which is even worse.)

The goal was always environmental, not so much animal welfare.

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Heatbeat t1_j6oyg7q wrote

Question.

Why does it take 99% less of all those things? Is it maybe...gasp... because of no animals required??

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_BreakingGood_ t1_j6oz24m wrote

Exactly, animals are one of the least efficient sources of food out there. Cows did not evolve to be food.

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Heatbeat t1_j6ozii2 wrote

Really? Then what did they evolve to do? Calculus?

If they're not supposed to be food then why do predators exist equipped to prey on them?

Fact is cows are a high yield food source and that's why they're so relied upon.

And you said it wasn't about the animals, which, it CLEARLY is.

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_BreakingGood_ t1_j6p7cxg wrote

You're really suggesting animals evolved to be food? Lol.

They evolved to NOT be food. Anything that evolved to be food went extinct a long time ago, because they got eaten.

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