Ask Vegans | Demandez aux véganes

Why does consensus matter? Eat what you like as long as it’s ethical

Though keep in mind ethical is not always clear. Impossible meat tastes the way it does because of soy leghemoglobin. The funders of the research into this wanted it to market asap so to do this impossible did a lot of animal testing to more rapidly receive fda approval (which still happened suspiciously fast)

That said at this point no animals are involved. To avoid it because of a personal sense of ethics would logically also imply a lot of headaches in your life about medical treatments and medications (not even touching on gelcaps and gelatin based wound dressings, ugh)

Also fwiw impossible and several other companies like oatly are trying to shift the consensus away from being seen as “vegan”, instead trying to be seen as a healthier option or whatever. In the case of impossible the ceo has basically said that being seen as vegan food is actively detrimental to sales, but he’s also a gross fratbro capitalist

And while impossible tastes “meatier” because of soy leghemoglobin isolated soy protein is doing the heavy lifting tbh. Beyond is basically the same without the proprietary leghemoglobin, instead using more plant based stuff like beet juice and pea protein (actually soy free). Stuff like Chunk is newer and based on culturing and fermenting soy to give a more steak like texture and taste (though chunk is Israeli which brings up a whole different ethical issue)

That all aside if you really like bolognese and decide to make some with beyond meat and daiya parm you’re still saving an animal so nice, why not