How sustainable are fake meats?
Source: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/how-sustainable-are-fake-meats
Author: Bob Holmes
If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt to the dinner table. The meat on our plates comes at a significant environmental cost through deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and air and water pollution - an uncomfortable reality, given the world’s urgent need to deal with climate change. That’s a big reason there’s such a buzz today around a newcomer to supermarket shelves and burger-joint menus: products that look like real meat but are made entirely without animal ingredients. Unlike the bean- or grain-based veggie burgers of past decades, these “plant-based meats,” the best known of which are Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat, are marketed heavily toward traditional meat-eaters.