FDA Declares Meat-free Impossible Burgers Safe To Eat

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The Food and Drug Administration has finally given Impossible Burger's plant-based meat its stamp of approval. Impossible Foods submitted the meat substitute for review back in 2014, but the FDA responded with concerns that its key ingredient, a protein known as soy leghemoglobin, might cause allergies and other adverse effects. The protein is commonly found in soy plants' roots, but since we don't typically eat that part of the plant, the FDA had reservations about its safety. In response, the company sent in more info, including results from a rat-feeding study, which convinced the agency to declare that the plant-based meat (and soy leghemoglobin) is "generally recognized as safe" for human consumption.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/fda-declares-meat-free-impossible-122900229.html

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Sounds scrumptious.   

[Silver Pines]

Insects might be safe to eat, but I'm not going there, either.

[Wingnut]

Stuff looks like low rate dog food..

[GtHawk]

Well at least the company is named appropriately, it would be impossible for them to get me to eat that cattle feed, it looks as bad as the weeds they serve now in restaurants in lieu of salads.

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I've heard they aren't bad, but don't have a very strong flavor and need fixin's.

[GtHawk]

I've heard they aren't bad, but don't have a very strong flavor and need fixin's.

You could say the same thing about cardboard. Let me step into the wayback machine to when I worked for MickeyD's and they forced us to put out 'Healthy Food', every single time your "don't have a very strong flavor and need fixin's" was the nicest thing you could say, can you say McLean? and no one would buy it.

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You could say the same thing about cardboard. Let me step into the wayback machine to when I worked for MickeyD's and they forced us to put out 'Healthy Food', every single time your "don't have a very strong flavor and need fixin's" was the nicest thing you could say, can you say McLean? and no one would buy it.

But I'm glad the option is available for people like my niece, who is allergic to beef, and those with alpha-gal tick-borne mammalian-meat allergy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/magazine/what-the-mystery-of-the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal.html

[GtHawk]

But I'm glad the option is available for people like my niece, who is allergic to beef, and those with alpha-gal tick-borne mammalian-meat allergy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/magazine/what-the-mystery-of-the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal.html

Oh I think it's great for people who can't or won't eat beef, I was only commenting that when it is marketed and pushed as something healthy and wonderful..........well the results always speak for themselves. If there are enough customers to keep this product in the marketplace for those that actually need it and it gives them more choices than that's a good thing.  I was just being a carnivore elitist.