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Imitation meat

jeudi 18 novembre 2021 à 23:55

Acceptable imitation meat seems to be on the horizon now.

From the article, it seems some tuning is still needed, but I expect that a few years of work will get it right.

Meanwhile, where is there a restaurant that will cook wheat gluten that actually tastes exactly like wheat gluten, instead of pretending to be meat and failing laughably?

Meat companies made workers so powerless

jeudi 18 novembre 2021 à 23:55

US meat companies made workers so powerless, and the regulatory agencies too, that neither could do anything to make the companies protect them from spreading disease to each other.

The four big meat companies crush unions and bully local governments, even state governments. It would be a very good thing to break them up into 40 competing companies.

Jailing and torture of opposition leaders

jeudi 18 novembre 2021 à 23:35

When Ugandan thugs jailed opposition leaders before the election, they jailed the leaders' children too. They have all been tortured and held in horrible conditions — for instance, so crowded that they couldn't find a spot of floor to sleep on.

Revolving door for ministers

jeudi 18 novembre 2021 à 23:35

The UK suffers from a revolving door for ministers, much like the US.

Palm oil land grabs

jeudi 18 novembre 2021 à 23:35

*Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people.*

Humans may be able to reduce the world land demand for meat, as we learn to eat less meat and as its price discourages purchase. But it will be very hard to do this with palm oil. My recommendation is, make fewer humans — since that tends to reduce so many other world problems.