The “plant based” thing has gone too far for me

Being a "plant-based" organism myself, I find your taxonomic bias highly offensive.

When do you stop squeezing a piece of fruit or a vegetable to turn it into water instead of juice?

If a piece of fruit gets squeezed in a forest and there's nobody there to hear it go *squish*...

Possibly made of asparaglass...

As long as there are gullible people there will be others taking advantage of them.

No matter how opposed someone is to eating meat products they all wish they could or else there wouldn't be faux burgers and such. If they didn't want meat there would be none of that. There are some people who cannot eat meat or it makes them ill. I excuse them but they are usually not the ones screaming and pointing their fingers at the carnivors.

Not very efficient I imagine, how much water does it take to grow a plant that can be processed into a bottle of water.

 I do like plant based meat. 

I was puzzled by this, so I did a bit of Googling. At first glance, it's not as goofy as it looks, although the "plant-based" branding is really confusing.


The point is to capture water that's otherwise dumped in food production (juices, sauces, sugar refining etc.) and filter it as a potable product. The concept was developed by an Australian chemist named Bruce Kambouris. His company is a commercial venture (obviously), but Kamboulis talks a lot about its tech as something that can help in areas where drinking water is hard to come by.

I don't doubt his social-enterprise ambitions, but we'll see. The benefit of the water is that it's reducing the amount of water that otherwise goes to waste. That the tech may help with water-access issues is good, too. But, man, I think that "plant-based" branding is going to hurt them. It just sounds so stupid. A lot of people are going to simply walk away.

Wisconsin is heading toward passing a bill into law that would require a beverage to come from an animal with hooves to be labelled "milk" in the state. If it were to become law, no more soy, almond, oat, etc etc etc so-called "milk" in America's Dairyland.

I know, like my non-edible plant based tires.  Maybe they could make milk out of all the used ones.

Yep. Seems like there ought to be a law of diminishing returns in there somewhere.

I'm working on the development of meat-based plants because they say vegetables are good for you, but I'd rather eat a steak.

Are they saying "plant based" because they're selling the idea that it has extra nutrients like coconut water? Yeah, that's a bit nutty.

Only slightly related: Recently I learned that when people talk about a high figure of how much water goes into raising beef, 94% of what they're talking about is just rain water that falls anywhere on the farm land.

Raising high amounts of veggies, especially when you're trying to make high-protein foods, uses way more water and often from outside sources (not rain water), so this might actually be a great idea.

Beef is pretty much plant based.