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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 5, 2023 13:14:37 GMT
Vegan restaurant opts to serve meat due to lack of businessA former fully vegan restaurant has decided to introduce meat on the menu after it failed to rally enough plant-based customers to its eatery. The Mango Tree in Taunton, Somerset, which boasted that plant-based food was “essential for healthy life” closed its doors for renovations and an overhaul to its menu. It announced that it will reopen in autumn and the restaurant “won’t be exclusively vegan, but will still be serving some of the current menu favourites”. The decision triggered an outrage in the Taunton vegan community. www.totallyveganbuzz.com/food/vegan-restaurant-meat-business/#:~:text=A%20former%20fully%20vegan%20restaurant,an%20overhaul%20to%20its%20menu.
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Post by barb43 on Mar 5, 2023 19:56:48 GMT
This restaurant's hardcore, longterm customers are short-sighted. The 2 following comments really point that out: To the 1st commenter, I'd ask if they're willing to pay double for their food? And do they believe all the other regular customers would agree to that? To the 2nd commenter, I'd suggest going home and preparing the vegan food they love in their own kitchens. Even if they're living in a small 1-bedroom flat or an efficiency, there is likely at least a small area in which they can prepare food. So plan it, shop, and get to it! I liked the restaurant spokesperson's response to these ^^^ types of comments: There it is, cut-and-dried. A lot of things cannot continue as they were a few years ago because society has changed as a whole. There are not as many customers, not as much income, and all costs have increased.
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Post by barb43 on Mar 5, 2023 20:08:47 GMT
There are many, many industries that use/have used animal products in their production.
Hershey’s just launched new vegan oat-based chocolate bars
This article was dated September 2021, so it's over a year old.
These candybars retailed at Target. Not sure if they're still selling them there or not.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 5, 2023 20:20:37 GMT
I might be willing to try either of those depending on how high the price is.
I love dark chocolate, and that almond and sea salt sounds interesting.
Still, I don't see either of them being something that I would get very often.
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Post by barb43 on Mar 6, 2023 2:44:52 GMT
I would try them, but - like you - I can't see myself buying them probably more than once. But once would be enough.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 9, 2023 20:53:06 GMT
Impossible Foods Launch Lite Lean Vegan BeefImpossible Foods was founded in 2011 with an unwavering mission to use plants to recreate animal products with the mission of replacing them with more sustainable, ethical, and delicious alternatives. First launched in 2016, its flagship Impossible Burger took on conventional ground beef and has since become a supermarket and restaurant menu mainstay. Impossible Food’s mission is to make viable plant-based alternatives to all animal products by 2035. The next step of that journey starts today with the launch of Impossible Beef Lite which was created to lock horns with “lean” animal-derived beef (specifically USDA 90/10 ground cow meat). “We know consumers love our plant-based beef,” a spokesperson for Impossible Foods tells VegNews. “Our flagship ground beef product is the number one best-selling retail product across the entire plant-based category, and it’s the best-selling product by volume of any plant-based meat brand in United States food service.” “But, we also know especially health-conscious consumers want options that better fit their lifestyles,” the spokesperson says. “Impossible Beef Lite is our response to that demand.” vegnews.com/vegan-news/environment/lean-vegan-meat-impossible-lite-beefNo thank you!
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Post by barb43 on Mar 10, 2023 15:02:54 GMT
"Vegan" and "beef" don't belong in the same sentence.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 10, 2023 15:14:38 GMT
"Vegan" and "beef" don't belong in the same sentence. I agree with you, but what I really want to know is: If their plant based "Beef" is already so much healthier than the real thing like they claim it is, why do they need a light version?
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Post by barb43 on Mar 10, 2023 16:13:02 GMT
I agree with you, but what I really want to know is: If their plant based "Beef" is already so much healthier than the real thing like they claim it is, why do they need a light version? Yep, and why would they even want to add the words "beef" to any of it? There would be no need if it were all that delicious.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 11, 2023 14:57:32 GMT
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Post by barb43 on Mar 11, 2023 17:26:19 GMT
And the link to the vegan Kit-Kat: www.mentalfloss.com/posts/vegan-kitkat-barInteresting point from that link: Not to break their little candy hearts, but I'm pretty sure I'll be passing up all of the faux chocolates.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 30, 2023 20:07:32 GMT
Giant meatball made out of lab-grown mammoth meat displayed in NetherlandsA meatball made of lab-grown mammoth meat was unveiled at a science museum in the Netherlands on Tuesday. Vow, the startup that made the meatball, created it using genetic information from the long-extinct mammoth, company researchers said in Tuesday’s media event. Some holes in the genetic sequence were filled in using data from the mammoth’s closest living relative: the African elephant. The process for making cultured meat usually starts with cells taken from a living animal. Those cells are immersed in nutrients and grown into meat in a lab. In this case, the mammoth genes were inserted into a sheep cell, Vow chief scientific officer James Ryall said at the unveiling. The mammoth gene was then overexpressed so it would be more prevalent in the final product than the sheep. No one has tasted the mammoth meat, Vow founder Tim Noakesmith disclosed. “And it doesn’t mean that you can’t eat it, but because this protein is literally 4,000 years old, we haven’t seen it for a very, very long time,” Noakesmith said. “It means that we would want to put it through seriously rigorous testing, like we do with any product that we want to bring to market. And for this purpose we wanted to present it to the world faster and not necessarily bring it immediately to market.” Even though Vow isn’t vouching for the safety of mammoth meat, the startup chose meat from an extinct animal to get people talking, Noakesmith said. endtimeheadlines.org/2023/03/watch-giant-meatball-made-out-of-lab-grown-mammoth-meat-displayed-in-netherlands/?fbclid=IwAR0VfJ9zPeft6wNC3wqAEYV4f0eXg8XV-PVJwTejzvTZiUyUkjZAOSYz8p8
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Post by barb43 on Mar 31, 2023 4:27:30 GMT
Help, Mel! This video really needs to be here! But I can't seem to get it to post - I click on the video button, put it in, it shows me "video goes here" and then it doesn't go there. Thank you!
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 31, 2023 4:54:05 GMT
Edit to add: instead of the regular video button, I used the one that looks like </> to open the second edit menu and then the button that looks like the Facebook logo.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on May 1, 2023 18:25:28 GMT
Seen on Facebook:
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