Beyond Meat Creates a "Healthy" Steak
I am not a doctor, scientist, or expert in anything. This content should not be construed as advice or recommendation, but is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only.
I recently heard an advertisement from Beyond Meat for their new steak product. The entire gist of the ad was that we can all enjoy eating steak again now that they’ve made it healthy. Yay for humans!?
Thanks to the intrepid entrepreneurs, funded by billionaires having your best interest at heart;-), who’ve toiled untold hours trying to recreate in a lab what nature has provided us for millions of years, we can now eat steak again. This time however, we can eat it with the confidence that we don’t have to worry about clogging arteries and destroying the planet.
Where is the evidence that this new “steak” product is healthy one might ask? And where is the evidence that steak from a cow is unhealthy? Have the objective, unbiased executives at Beyond Meat commissioned interventional studies comparing the health outcomes of real meat eaters vs the fake meat eaters?
Oh dear reader, you should know by now that such evidence is not required from the food industry, much less any industry, making claims about their products being better for you or improving health.
No, the evidence is merely that meat from animals has been deemed unhealthy based on wildly unreliable food surveys passed off as studies, therefore, the “meat” they created in a lab from ultra-processed ingredients is healthy.
So what is in Beyond Meat that makes it so darn healthy for us? Here is a list of ingredients for their Beyond Burgers:
Water, pea protein*, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, dried yeast, cocoa butter, methylcellulose, and less than 1% of potato starch, salt, potassium chloride, beet juice color, apple extract, pomegranate concentrate, sunflower lecithin, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, vitamins and minerals (zinc sulfate, niacinamide [vitamin B3], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], cyanocobalamin [vitamin B12], calcium pantothenate).
*Peas are legumes. People with severe allergies to legumes like peanuts should be cautious when introducing pea protein into their diet because of the possibility of a pea allergy. Contains no peanuts or tree nuts.
It must be healthy since they had to use so many ingredients and add poorly absorbed synthetic vitamins and minerals. It has my favorite ingredient, canola oil, which is really an industrial oil that has been made a little less toxic in order to sell it to humans for consumption. Nice touch that they inform us about the allergy potential due to peas being legumes just like peanuts.
These fake foods are also better for the environment because… they say so!
Apparently these ingredients grow in the wild and decide to process themselves, package themselves, and get to the stores all without any inputs from humans such as water, synthetic fertilizers and herbicides like Round-Up, diesel fuel in tractors that over intensively farm the land and trucks for transportation, energy for the various factories that process the different ingredients, etc. They truly are a marvel of human ingenuity.
So what are all of the unhealthy ingredients in hamburgers from a cow? Uh, the only ingredient is ground beef. You know it’s unhealthy when it only has one ingredient especially if it’s from an animal. What a loser!
I can’t find the ingredients for the new steak product, but we can assume it’s got all of the greatest hits from the other Beyond Meat products plus some extras to replicate a solid steak. How can it not be the healthier option when steak from a cow only has one ingredient - beef?
Sarcasm aside, are people actually buying into this bullshit? It seems the shine has come off this turd based on the following headlines:
Beyond Meat cuts non-production workforce by 19% with demand for plant-based meat weak
UPDATE 1-Beyond Meat cuts annual revenue forecast, reviewing global operations
Beyond Meat slashes workforce as business model is under fire
It also seems that investors fell out of love with this loser a while back:
Can you imagine having bought into this stock at $150/share? But hey, hang onto those shares and keep buying. I smell a come back LOLOL.
Folks, don’t buy into the marketing bullshit that any of these processed food companies have been trying to sell us for decades. They need to sell you their products to keep their jobs and satisfy investors, and will try any gimmick to get you to buy.
Not everything nature provides us is necessarily good for us, but nothing that comes from these fake food factories is good for us. If it comes in a bag, box, or can and has more than 3 ingredients, or ones that you can’t easily recognize as a food that occurs in nature, it’s not food. Cheers to your good health.