I'm starting to see advertisements and news reports for restaraunts using "plant-based meat" as a substitute for actual meat.  Evidently, Burger King has introduced a burger using "plant-based meat" and Kentucky Fried Chicken is testing "plant-based" chicken nuggets and boneless wings.

Obviously, these particular eateries aren't really healthy, but I wonder where else these "plant-based meats" are going to crop up (pardon the pun).  In any event, I don't have a warm and fuzzy about this.  For example, see the article below.

https://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/how-fake-meat-is-made

or this one:

https://ancestral-nutrition.com/beyond-meat-is-beyond-unhealthy/

Anyone have more information about this latest fad?  There are already too many soy boys out there and if this catches on, there will be a whole lot more.

I was going to try one at Burger King, until I saw the price!  What gives?  It was twice as much as the real beef!   :ready-to-eat:

The beyond burger I tried was at a Greek owned diner on a gluten free bun. Sweet potato fries were tasty but the beyond burger was yucky.  It wasn’t that expensive.       
I never go to Burger King  because of gross sanitary conditions at the ones in our area.  



Yes. Better off eating grass fed beef, venison, chicken, lamb, bison.   Homemade Bean burgers are good.  It is better to make your own hamburgers.  I had scrapple this morning along with western omelette.  Now that was good.  


All that fake chicken, fake  meat is vegetarian junk food.  

There are already too many soy boys out there

Beyond Burgers are soy-free, being based on pea protein. They're very greasy, though. Many of these mock meats are made with modified proteins, and they're all heavily processed. Veggie burgers or real meat are better.
Soy and quinoa are the only plants with all the amino acids, so they're nothing wrong with soy per se. One would hardly call Asians "soy boys" because they actually know how to consume soy properly: fermented (soy sauce, tempeh) or minimally processed (tofu).

There are many good protein sources:
Shown below is protein "bang for your buck" (grams / British pound) vs. % total calories from protein (how rich a source of protein it is). The circle sizes correspond to how many grams each item needs to be to have 100 cal. (i.e., "energy density"):


from: this spreadsheet (courtesy: WetlabStudent on Vegetarianism StackExchange)

most of them seem to be based on soy.

Yes, most are.

When a person has a diabetic episode, he's not fed bacon or beef to revive him. He's fed sugar (a plant nutrient). Get off the dead carcass diet, brah. Eat more plants (sugar and carbs). You eat dead flesh, and you become death.

Fats and oils paralyze insulin reception. Sugar increases insulin sensitivity, thereby, less insulin is needed. Dead flesh has the fats. Plants have the sugar. I'll take plants, thereby, still rock out single digit body fat, high energy levels, lean musculature, strength, endurance, and the sweet aroma being emitted from my person that the chickies love.

Meanwhile, you dead flesh-eaters will increase onset of morbidity, obesity, rot breath, and dead carcass odor.

That alone tells you that sugar is an essential nutrient.

There are many essential sugars.