Current Affairs No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

[peteblue]

I’m vegetarian and always feed the grandkids Quorn nuggets but tell them they are chicken, they’ve never sussed that they’re not actually eating meat.

Chicken would have been better.....

Ingredients​

476g Frozen Quorn Crispy Nuggets
Mycoprotein (39%), Water, Rehydrated Free Range Egg White, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Salt, Maize Flour, Wheat Starch, Milk Proteins, Textured Wheat Protein (Wheat Protein, Wheat Flour), Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents: Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonate; Pea Fibre, Firming Agents: Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate; WheatGluten, Gelling Agent: Pectin; Dextrose.

 

[Hickson9]

Chicken would have been better.....

Ingredients​

476g Frozen Quorn Crispy Nuggets
Mycoprotein (39%), Water, Rehydrated Free Range Egg White, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Salt, Maize Flour, Wheat Starch, Milk Proteins, Textured Wheat Protein (Wheat Protein, Wheat Flour), Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents: Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonate; Pea Fibre, Firming Agents: Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate; WheatGluten, Gelling Agent: Pectin; Dextrose.

Not for the chickens.

 

[peteblue]

Not for the chickens.

If we didn’t eat chickens etc or eat eggs, then whole species would no longer exist on the planet......

 

[Gwladysover]

Chicken would have been better.....

Ingredients​

476g Frozen Quorn Crispy Nuggets
Mycoprotein (39%), Water, Rehydrated Free Range Egg White, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Salt, Maize Flour, Wheat Starch, Milk Proteins, Textured Wheat Protein (Wheat Protein, Wheat Flour), Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents: Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonate; Pea Fibre, Firming Agents: Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate; WheatGluten, Gelling Agent: Pectin; Dextrose.

Point taken and put like that Quorn nuggets are not a healthy option however chicken nuggets are also highly processed as well. I am married to a carnivore and, unlike some veggies, have no objection to cooking and serving meat. I just prefer to feed the grandkids Quorn nuggets.

 

[Hickson9]

If we didn’t eat chickens etc or eat eggs, then whole species would no longer exist on the planet......

Doesn't mean they should be factory farmed like they are, in disgusting conditions.

 

[peteblue]

Doesn't mean they should be factory farmed like they are, in disgusting conditions.

I agree with you there. Around here lots of people keep hens and cockerels for their own use and in good conditions. Factory farming is disgusting but I fear is here to stay.....

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

No thanks.

You'd rather eat tortured eat that is destroying the planet?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

This bit struck me:


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Can only be a good thing. Aside from the incredible cruelty of the industry, the environmental impact is immense. I don't know whether humanity has the will to make this more widespread, or the technology to expand it fast enough, but here's hoping it's the start of something.

Yip

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

If we didn’t eat chickens etc or eat eggs, then whole species would no longer exist on the planet......

The ones in my garden would, what a weird thing to say

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I think that's when we'll make the biggest dent in the world's meat-eating habits, when the alternatives are significantly cheaper. But I suspect it's not just the cost for you atm if the prices are the same. Meat is delicious like, I do miss it sometimes. But giving it up or cutting back on it is just a really good thing to do for all sorts of reasons beyond price

Every day but the sacrifice is worth it.

 

[orchard]

I agree with you there. Around here lots of people keep hens and cockerels for their own use and in good conditions. Factory farming is disgusting but I fear is here to stay.....

At least until all our AB's are useless. Perhaps you need to have a word with your affable MP and try to get the Conservatives to support sustainable small farmers.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Most of my meat is seasoned to death and covered in sauce or gravy anyway, can't even tell the difference.

To really succeed, this stuff just needs to distance itself from the unfortunate association with sanctimonious salad sh*ggers who become pseudo-vegan for the soul purpose of being the center of attention during group meals out (assuming you can find an "acceptable" restaurant in the first place).

The weird thing is, many meat eaters are just as bad.."gotta be meat in every meal"... "real men eat meat"..."love the taste of blood.."

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Chicken would have been better.....

Ingredients​

476g Frozen Quorn Crispy Nuggets
Mycoprotein (39%), Water, Rehydrated Free Range Egg White, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Salt, Maize Flour, Wheat Starch, Milk Proteins, Textured Wheat Protein (Wheat Protein, Wheat Flour), Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents: Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonate; Pea Fibre, Firming Agents: Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate; WheatGluten, Gelling Agent: Pectin; Dextrose.

Can't see tears on their anywhere Pete

 

[orchard]

You'd rather eat tortured eat that is destroying the planet?

Haha, of course not my emotive Friend.

Industrial farming is destroying the planet, not good husbandry, which sequesters carbon and improves soils.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Point taken and put like that Quorn nuggets are not a healthy option however chicken nuggets are also highly processed as well. I am married to a carnivore and, unlike some veggies, have no objection to cooking and serving meat. I just prefer to feed the grandkids Quorn nuggets.

Same, I cook meat for my son and wife whenever they have it. It's my issue not theirs.