Poll of the Day > Would you want a plant-based ribeye steak to still cost a lot of money?

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Do you like the thought of paying for premium meat, even if it's not meat?

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Huh, interesting thought. It should all cost the same right?

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No lulz, this is the same as buying those 60$ basic white t-shirts just cause they're made by Diddy or Kanye, dumb af

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I'd only pay more for real meat.

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No. The point of plant-based meat is too replace meat. But if you can make it cheaper, then make it cheaper. Why would people want it to be expensive. Especially if you want it to replace meat. What would be the point for some to switch if theres no reason. Making it cheaper would give more people a reason to buy it...

Right now, some people wont buy the plant-based meat since it cost more. Making it cost less means they might buy it for cost. Some would...
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Aren't they easier to produce?

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Some people pay for things to say they have. Just look at Starbucks people. They're so ignorant yet so darn proud and full of themselves.
Luckily, a good chunk of people aren't that way but there's a ton that are. It's sad to see adults acting like teenagers in high school trying to be popular.

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Obviously not? Why would anyone want it to still be as much as a regular steak?

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I don't want a plant based ribeye at all.


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Gr8M8 posted...

Aren't they easier to produce?

I've always thought it was more complicated.

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do i want something to arbitrarily cost more money?

no?

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I hear its more expensive right now. Thats why all the products are still expensive...
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Bugmeat posted...

I don't want a plant based ribeye at all.

Let's say it is basically identical to real meat. Blind studies are unable to tell the difference essentially 100% of the time. What would make you choose the real thing over a plant based steak at that point?

sodium-chloride posted...

Let's say it is basically identical to real meat. Blind studies are unable to tell the difference essentially 100% of the time. What would make you choose the real thing over a plant based steak at that point?

Probably the cost. Maybe the cooking directions. As long as it taste good, Ill be fine. But if I had to choose, Id stick with real meat personally. For me, thats just how I feel. I cant say why for Bugmeat, though...
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Solid Sonic posted...

I've always thought it was more complicated.

it will be right up until it isnt

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Bugmeat posted...

I don't want a plant based ribeye at all.

Right? Eat a damn salad and stop trying to appropriate my food

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sodium-chloride posted...

Let's say it is basically identical to real meat. Blind studies are unable to tell the difference essentially 100% of the time. What would make you choose the real thing over a plant based steak at that point?

Aren't there crazy hormone levels in this food currently?
That's what gets me about the current trend.
How long did it take to get the additional hormones out of our meat? Companies are still "proud" of following FDA guidelines and market their meat as such cause it's still recent.
We could potentially have an influx of young girls getting their period even earlier. Seems like every decade we've done something to lower the age of the first period by like 6 months.

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BADoglick posted...

Right? Eat a damn salad and stop trying to appropriate my food

no one is trying to take a regular steak away from you, why not give people options?

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sodium-chloride posted...

Let's say it is basically identical to real meat. Blind studies are unable to tell the difference essentially 100% of the time. What would make you choose the real thing over a plant based steak at that point?

Ok, even if your scenario were possible where they could prefectly match the texture of a good ribeye, the muscle tissue, the fat that is spread through it, the way the layer of fat along the edge gets a little crispy from the heat of the broiler, etc. (they can't, that's why all this imitation meat is ground) The extremely processed nature of imitation meat would be why I'm not interested. They've been telling us for decades that highly processed foods are not as good for you as more natural, "whole foods" and imitation meat is some of the most highly processed food around.

Now if they could grow actual meat in a lab, muscle tissue with fat marbeling, etc. and match the various cuts, without the need to slaughter an actual animal, I'd be interested in that. That's far more likely to be possible than taking plants and processing them in a way to perfectly match actual cuts of meat and not just ground meat.

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I suppose it depends on the cost to produce it

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Um, no. I want a real steak which does cost a lot of money.

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sodium-chloride posted...

Let's say it is basically identical to real meat. Blind studies are unable to tell the difference essentially 100% of the time. What would make you choose the real thing over a plant based steak at that point?

Price. If it's fake meat, it better be a lot cheaper.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Um, no. I want a real steak which does cost a lot of money.

that is not what TC is asking

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Bugmeat posted...

Now if they could grow actual meat in a lab, muscle tissue with fat marbeling, etc. and match the various cuts, without the need to slaughter an actual animal, I'd be interested in that. That's far more likely to be possible than taking plants and processing them in a way to perfectly match actual cuts of meat and not just ground meat.

What if they do so using substances derived entirely from plants?

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Solid Sonic posted...

I've always thought it was more complicated.

Which would explain why meat substitutes are as expensive or moreso than counterparts.

And no, I wouldn't want it, price be damned. All substitutes have lousy texture and that's like half the joy of eating steak.