Response to “How this ‘Meat Patch’ is helping us make the change to plant-based diets” by paulosbourne23

Literally was just on my YouTube feed and watched a video on some guy cooking a plant based burger for Bill Gates. And now scrolling through my blog feed, I see theguywhogames211’s blog: Our Diet:Meat vs Plants. What a coincidence! His blog post however was a response to “How this “Meat Patch” is helping us make the change to plant-based diets” by paulosbourne23, so I guess I’ll be responding to both of their posts. Both these posts talk about how the people of the world are shifting towards a more plant-based diet. In paulosbourne23’s post, the innovative “meat patch” is discussed. The meat patch is a patch you put on your skin that tricks you into thinking you’re eating meat via smell. Although this invention is quite interesting, I find the other innovation, the Impossible Burger, to be more fascinating. And I’m kind of biased because it’s everywhere in LA and it’s actually SO G O O D. And also cause the youtube video I watched was about the Impossible Burger too. At the end of his post, Paulos mentions that if this food industry keeps advancing, people and the environment will become more and more healthy. This I completely agree with, and I believe that we are starting to reach that point. In the youtube video I watched, the youtuber gave impossible burgers to a bunch of his nieces (without telling them the burger was plant based). They all loved it, and were surprised as heck when he told them that the burger had no meat, and that it was plant based. Just the fact that the KIDS enjoyed eating a plant-based burger shows how much it tastes like real meat. This goes to show how far plant-based meat technology has gone. It also seems that both the guywhogames211 and paulosbourne23 agree that if the plant-based product tastes close enough to actual meat, they are all for it. Well I have good news, because the impossible burger is pretty darn close. The company doesn’t only care about the taste, but creates the burger so that it grills like real meat, and looks like real meat. In the youtube video, the youtuber goes into the Impossible Burger headquarters, where they show how they add sunflower oil and other plant based oils to make the burger juicy when cooking, like real meat. The only downside right now is the cost. Impossible “meat” is more expensive than regular meat, which makes sense. The demand isn’t very high, so naturally it costs more. However if more people start to hop on the impossible meat bandwagon, I could see how the impossible meat could get cheaper, and eventually reach the point where it’s cheaper than actual meat. According to the youtube video I watched, Bill Gates also has hope for the future of plant-based meat as well. He says that the agricultural industry creates more carbon emissions than cars, boats, etc. combined. If people were to slowly move to plant-based diets, global warming would be slowed significantly. I’m excited to see how the average American’s diet will change over the next 10 years. Hopefully they’ll become more earth-friendly! In the meantime, I’m going to the grocery store to get some impossible meat to prank my son with. See y’all next week!