Impossible

 I finally broke down and tried the impossible burger. They sell it at my local superduperhyperultramegamart, so I figured I didn ' t have an excuse not to. I haven ' t eaten beef for about 45 years, so I really didn ' t remember what it tastes like and I had some trepidation. Everybody says it ' s a convincing imitation, and I thought I might be grossed out.Well, no, I wasn ' t really grossed out, but on the other hand I didn ' t feel like I ' d been missing anything. I actually think some of the veggie burgers you can get (or make yourself) that aren ' t pretending to be meat are better. And by the way they are also nutritionally superior. But since the vast majority of the earth ' s population apparently feels that they just have to be eating something that at least seems to be meat, please do go for it. A plant based diet requires 1/10 of the land surface and fossil fuels and other unsustainable inputs that it takes to grow feed for animals. Our species can ' t survive if everybody has to eat meat. So if you just have to have it, and this does the requisite floating of your boat, please do go for it. I was actually hoping to find " meat " balls but they only had burger and sausage. In fact the soy-based meatballs that have been around for 20 years are just fine, they work great in meatball subs or spaghetti and meatballs. So if your problem is that you just didn ' t know how to make vegetarian meals and it was too hard to learn, that ' s no longer operative. The...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs