The rise and fall of Beyond Meat

[canada-man]

It looks like it is game over for the Beyond Meat fake food company, which saw its stock crash amid widespread disinterest in fake meat products.

After going public in 2019, the Bill Gates-invested company saw a quick pop followed by a stead decline. The Beyond Meat share price at the time reached a high of $234. As of this writing, Beyond Meat shares are trading for $15.90 a pop. (Related: Bill Gates’ plan was to force everyone in the world to eat Beyond Meat.)

What went wrong? Well, for one, the vast majority of human beings crave real meat from animals. They are not interested in a lab-concocted abomination of chemicals, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other questionable ingredients.

Second, Beyond Meat’s claim to fame that it had developed a “climate friendly” alternative to real meat means very little now that the world is waking up to the climate change scam.

Try as it most certainly did to paint environmentalism across the brand, Beyond Meat is now “beyond hope,” to quote an article in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that documents the company’s rise and fall into oblivion.

“Beyond Meat was inundated with initial-public-offering cash, and its products began appearing in restaurants and on grocery shelves,” writes Andrew Boucher. “You can find Beyond Meat burgers, breakfast sausages, brats, Italian sausages and something called ‘Beefy Crumbles’ at Walmart.”

“Beyond Meat jerky even started showing up in convenience stores next to the real beef jerky, corn nuts and pork rinds. McDonald’s introduced the McPlant … The question that many investors, cheerleaders or financial analysts apparently didn’t bother to ask: Who’s going to eat this?”

Good riddance, Beyond Meat
While there will always be a very small contingent of society that falls for these types of creepy, lab-made products, the vast majority of people prefer real meat from animals, period.

No amount of dressing up chemical mush into the shape of a steak or a chicken wing will ever make the types of products Beyond Meat produces palatable. And the company is now learning that the hard way.

“Even among vegetarians, how many were ever in the market for something that reminds them of the taste of charred cow flesh?” Boucher adds. “Just a guess, but someone who ‘considers’ himself a vegetarian and gets in line at McDonald’s is probably going to order the usual fare.”

Another strange development in the Beyond Meat saga is the recent arrest of the company’s chief operating officer (COO), Doug Ramsey.

Ramsey is said to have bitten a man’s nose after an Arkansas football game. He had just watched Arkansas beat Missouri State at Razorback Stadium when Ramsey had a confrontation in the parking lot.

“According to cops, a driver of a Subaru ‘inched his way’ toward [Ramsey’s] Bronco, connecting with the front passenger tire,” reports TMZ.

“That’s all it allegedly took for Ramsey to go ballistic, jumping out of his whip and allegedly punching through the back windshield of the Subaru.”

The owner of the Subaru, we are told, got out of his car as well and started punching Ramsey. Ramsey responded by “bit[ing] the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh off the tip of the nose,” according to a police report – check out Ramsey’s mugshot at TMZ.

The driver of the Subaru also says that Ramsey threatened to murder him, after which Ramsey was arrested on charges of making terroristic threats and committing third-degree battery.

The final nail in Beyond Meat’s coffin could be its hiring of Kim Kardashian as the company’s official spokesperson. Yeah, things are not looking so good for Beyond Meat these days.

More related news about the collapse of the fake meat industry can be found at Frankenfood.news.

Sources for this article include:

WSJ.com

TMZ.com

NaturalNews.com

The rise and fall of Beyond Meat – NaturalNews.com

 

[mandrill]

Russia mobilizes 300,000, promises defensive use of nuclear weapons while psychopathic western leaders beg for annihilation

The other headline in your piece of shit "source".

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Western media outlets and nations are trying to provoke a first strike nuclear holocaust

Western media, which now lies even more vehemently than Pravda ever did, claims this is Putin threatening the first use of nuclear weapons. That is of course a lie, but it is a convenient lie that’s being used by western media to call for a western preemptive nuclear strike against Russia in order to stop “Russia’s aggression.”


This is a very dangerous development, because if Russia takes such threats seriously, then classical game theory would require Putin to strike first, in order to preempt the anticipated preemptive strike by the West. Thus, we find ourselves in a rapidly escalating feedback loop which could end in nuclear disaster, especially given that the Biden regime appears to be actively trying to start World War III before the mid-term elections, allowing him to declare a national war footing and try to postpone the ballot box lashing that Democrats are sure to endure if the elections take place.


Even worse, while Putin appears to be acting rationally from his own national self-interest, western leaders are behaving like psychopaths who are utterly disconnected from reason and reality. They do not even acknowledge the fact that their own economic sanctions against Russia unleashed the catastrophic

 

[The Oracle]

Who in their right mind would even consider making this concocted mess part of their everyday diet?

It's good to read that the push back against this nonsense is having an impact.

 

[shack]

(Related: Bill Gates’ plan was to force everyone in the world to eat Beyond Meat.)

Silly comment. He could try to convince or encourage as many people as possible to eat Beyond Meat, but to force not just some people, but everyone, to do so sounds ridiculous and is probably founded from a negative bias of Gates.

 

[AndrewX]

Who in their right mind would even consider making this concocted mess part of their everyday diet?

It's good to read that the push back against this nonsense is having an impact.

I guess they developed this stuff, because beef and red meat had a bad rap. Never bought it but I had a impossible burger at a party and it tasted ok. The stuff is so processed you wonder what will kill you first the beef of this stuff.

 

[Y_Diner]

Full of chemicals and shit you never heard of? No thanks. If your gonna go veggie or vegan, just stick to your grains greens and fruits. I’ve met a few that get full on self-righteousness.

 

[Sonic Temple]

What about a heathy-balanced dose of veg and non-veg.

 

[Y_Diner]

Animal protein and greens are my go to. Love carbs but limit them

 

[fall]

When a COO of Beyond Meat starts biting on some fresh meat, I think, it is a good indicator that one cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.

 

[Mr Deeds]

I wouldn't touch it I'm afraid I might get a hamburger with somebody's chewed up nose in it

 

[canada-man]

Impossible Foods seeks EU and UK approval for its GMO "fake meat" bleeding ingredient


Impossible Foods' GMO "fake meat" ingredient, soy leghemoglobin (SLH for short), is currently being considered for approval for food use in the EU and the UK.

This summer, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asked the company to provide more information that was clearly missing from its application, including details on possible toxicity and allergenicity.

The company submitted its application to EFSA in September 2019. EFSA recently asked the company to provide the EU's GMO detection lab with additional information on SLH.

If EFSA issues a favourable opinion on SLH, the matter then passes to the EU Member States for a vote. If they vote to approve the GMO, it will be allowed to be used in Impossible Burgers, which Impossible Foods wants to market in the bloc. If, as is virtually always the case with votes on GMOs, no qualified majority is reached, the Commission can approve it unilaterally (but undemocratically) via a process called comitology.

The GMO SLH is the key ingredient that make the fake meat burgers "bleed" a red substance that resembles the blood that oozes from rare beef.

SLH in its natural state exists in the roots of soybeans and has never been a part of the human diet. So it does not have a history of safe use in food. In addition, Impossible Foods’ SLH is derived from a genetically engineered strain of Pichia pastoris yeast. Pichia pastoris, whether GMO or not, also has no history of safe use in food.

Allergenicity and toxicity information requested
In June this year, EFSA asked the company to provide additional information on a number of important aspects of SLH, including compositional analyses, identity of the genetically engineered yeast strain that is used to produce it, and SLH's nutritional value, allergenicity, and toxicity.

It is worrying that Impossible Foods has to be prompted to supply the necessary information, which should form a standard part of any application for a GMO authorisation in the EU.

We don't have the benefit of seeing the precise wording of EFSA's requests, which remain confidential. At first glance it seems that EFSA asking the right questions to form a sound preliminary assessment of the risks to consumers. However, the full risks will not be known until the product has been out there in the marketplace for some time and enough consumers have tried an Impossible Burger.

Anecdotal reports communicated to us informally in the US suggest that some people can suffer toxic or allergic reactions to the Impossible Burger, though we don't have the evidence needed to endorse or refute this possibility. Any consumer reactions that do occur would need to be recorded and published in a peer-reviewed study to stand a chance of being taken seriously by regulators.

Impossible Foods should use non-GMO ingredients in the EU – law expert
A report for Bloomberg quotes Katia Merten-Lentz, a partner at regulatory law specialists Keller and Heckman LLP in Brussels, as saying that due to EU consumers' hostility to eating GM foods, it may make more sense for Impossible Foods to use a non-GM ingredient in the EU.

“The spirit of the European countries is not really against innovation, but, for sure, not in favour of GMOs,” she said. “A GMOs [sic] ingredient which appears on the ingredients list could be a bad start in terms of marketing. If I were Impossible Foods, I would do my best to change the heme ingredient.”

Indeed, analyses show that the market for plant-based fake meat products – the GMO issue apart – has peaked and is now in decline. Reasons cited include disappointing taste and high prices.

But Arlin Wasserman, founder of food strategy consultancy Changing Tastes, primarily blames "the long list of ingredients with unfamiliar names for making the product look like highly processed food and acting as a barrier to repeat purchases". He said, “Consumers may buy it once, but after reading the label, slow down their purchases."

Plant-based meat is commonly made from proteins processed from various plants (including fungal spores), colouring, flavouring, texturing agents, binders, and added vitamins and minerals that are naturally present in real meat.

Given these trends, the Impossible Burger may go down like a lead balloon in the EU. Impossible Foods should withdraw its application to EFSA and change its business model to focus on healthy, minimally processed foods with a transparent provenance.

Impossible Foods seeks EU and UK approval for its GMO "fake meat" bleeding ingredient (gmwatch.org)

 

[The Fox]

Nice idea but tasted like shit and was mushy. Plus, with all the processing , it would likely kill you too lol.