Impossible Burger and Vegans in Voices Windward

The impossible burger is one made entirely of plant matter design specifically to emulate a Beef burger. It is a project of scientists worried about the deeply resource wasteful Beef industry which is impacting the climate and water table.

It’s made opposition, curiously enough, is a niche element of the vegan community.

Now I’m effectivley vegan (freegan but thats another post) and I’m an animal rights activist of the extreme type you read about in the paper… so there is some context.

You see a lot of hate from people saying FRANKENBURGER!!! DEATH BURGER! IT’S NOT VEGAN etc etc etc

Well…heck....so…

They don’t advertise as a vegan product and they only tested on animals to pass the FDA regulations and subsequently it’s self driven to validate its saftey because the heme they use comes from genetically modified sources.

This primary testing is mandatory for every single new product. It is a government level requirement. Whether it’s on a medicine, shampoo or food source.

Every single food source is or has been put through animal testing. It is how long term studies are done (atleast in the states) and the only products that can claim to be animal testing free sit on a legacy of animal testing, whether thats margerine, olives or coffee. Sometimes by the government, sometimes the producers and sometimes researchers.

Impossible are in a massive battle to prove that genetically engineered foods are viable and will end big ag and the farming industry. The strongest advocate against them are curiously enough the “Natural Eating” crowd who are anti GM. They blame Impossible for the state of regulations that forced their hand to evidence the saftey of their product with animal testing and for having to self govern testing to prove it to the anti GM crowd who are constantly attacking the GM.

Funnily enough the animal testing is only happening at this point to evidence the saftey of GM heme to the natural eating crowd.

I don’t agree with animal testing and the sooner it ends the better. The less bullshit from people concern that GM will kill us all with it’s unnatural evil the better.

They are not a “vegan ethic” company but one trying to reduce our agricultural wastage and end the deeply problematic and resource wasteful beef industry.

This is one of those cases where the “ethical / naturalist” vegans are churning out their hate cannon and giving everyone a bad name. I really don’t like the misreprentation of whats offending them and the severity in which they are attacking a move they should - if they can’t support - acknowledge is a positive step.

End of the day if it becomes popular and commericially viable thats millions of cows saved and resources protected.

Sort it out.