The Impossible Burger- Impossibly Healthy
There has been much hype lately with the impossible burger. The hype involves regenerative agriculture and being a healthy alternative for people who don’t want to eat meat.
That’s a lot to unpack in just two sentences, however, it is the very reason why our society continues to be duped by Big Food and companies that don’t have the best intentions in mind.
Let us start at the very beginning and we can slowly dissect what is actually in the Impossible Burger, how it is detrimental to our environment, and how we are continually lied to about the health benefits.
I Will Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today
Okay.
I need to mentally prepare myself prior to diving into this topic because it is utterly ridiculous and I hate being lied to.
But, here we go.
Keep in mind- this information is DIRECTLY from the Impossible Foods website, so everyone has access to this information.
It contains water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil, natural flavors, and 2% or less of; potato protein, methylcellulose, yeast extract, cultured dextrose, food starch-modified, soy leghemoglobin, salt, mixed tocopherols, soy protein isolate, vitamins and minerals (Zinc gluconate, thiamine hydrochloride (B1), niacin, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (B6), Riboflavin (B12).
Did I mention that it contains soy? I hope by now you all realize how much I hate soy.
Also, just for funsies sake- do you know the ingredients in steak? You know, the thing that comes from cows?
It contains steak.
That’s it. I mean, how could something so simple be bad for us? Plus it has so many macro and micronutrients that are NOT in the fake meat products.
The Impossible burger is loaded with industrial seed oils AND soy. Both are well known to the scientific world to spike our insulin levels and raise inflammation throughout the body.
Beyond that, they make us fat!!
Did you know farmers feed their cattle corn and soy to fatten them up?
They sure do.
Now we are eating stuff that cattle eat to fatten them up and we are getting fat as a result. This is why we should always buy grass feed meets whenever possible.
Additionally, how do you think they are able to generate enough soy to handle an ever-growing business? I mean, it all comes down to supply and demand, right?
If we are in the market for regenerative agriculture, this is not the way to do it.
Soy farms disrupt the sensitive ecological system, uproot many important species, eliminates biodiversity, cause rising carbon emissions, increase soil erosion, and causes water contamination.
To sum- nothing in the highly processed Impossible Burger is good for us.
Plain and simple.
I mean, do you think our hunter and gatherer ancestors forged for freaking soy? We have not evolved with these big meaty brains to eat soy and become soft, fragile beings.
Regenerative Agriculture- Why Should I Care?
This term is relatively new in my vocabulary. Although its newness shouldn’t shy us away from the important concept it brings to the table.
From what I have learned, it is essentially farming practices aimed at promoting soil health by restoring the Earth’s carbon.
What actually constitutes the term regenerative agriculture can include no-tilling. That means farmers avoid plowing soils and actually drill seeds into the soil. Much like what we used to do before the industrial age came into effect.
In addition, they would add diverse crop rotations, rotate crops with livestock grazing, and reducing fertilizer or pesticide use.
What all that means is that we are letting the animals be animals, graze the land like they used to, eat the foods they are genetically programmed to.
This is simply because we want more of everything. That is what our society has developed into. We are not okay with being content. We need to mass-produce everything.
When we do that, we sacrifice quality. It is the same formula time and time again.
Every great society has built itself from scratch only to crumble because we need more. We need more land. More power. More defenses. More population.
It all comes with a cost and unfortunately, it is usually our health that suffers.
Earth has a very sensitive ecosystem that requires an adequate amount of carbon in our soil. This allows more nutrients to thrive and enter the food source to give us, or the animals that eat it, more nutrients that have been deprived from heavily processing the foods.
Not to mention it helps keep our water supply clean. All of these benefits are not being considered when we have created soy farms to mass-produce something that provides little to no health benefits other than tasting like meat without being meat.
If we are going through all that trouble…why not eat the damn meat and learn how we can keep our Earth healthy with better farming practices and not eat heavily processed foods?
The Sky Is Purple- Trust Me. It Is From Solar Winds
I hope no one really believed that sentence because it is simply asinine. But this is what Big Food companies do.
They provide a statement that seems somewhat plausible, has no science supporting that statement, and hopes no one actually researches and sees they are full of sh*t.
Or they have enough money to pay off a lot of scientists or, even worse, pay off scientists to do “bad science” studies that are heavily biased in their favor.
This is CONSTANTLY being done in our society. Unfortunately, everyone has a price and it is affecting something that should have no user bias at all; the scientific process.
It hurts my heart, but these are the cold hard facts. Almost every single scientific study out there that claims meat causes cancer was funded by groups that are vegan or vegetarian.
What kind of user bias is that?
This is the environment we live in today. The truth is manipulated and slandered to formulate an unethical description of events so someone who has a lot of money, or thinks the sky is actually purple, can create their own science.
When people say they do their research online from a Google search- it makes me cringe. But this is what our society has developed into and we are unable to shift through the BS because there is so much information overload we just don’t know what to trust anymore.
What it boils down to is how can we get as close to nature as possible?
The industrial farming acts we practice now are degrading our food quality and causing us to become fatter and more unhealthy.
We need to teach our children to grow crops in our backyards. We need to respect the animals we eat and use every part of them- not just the stuff that is pre-packaged for our convenience.
There are so many nutrients in animal organs that go to waste- and for what?! Because they aren’t sexy! They don’t taste as good, there is so much taboo surrounding them and it is uniformly laughed at in our society.
Do you know what our ancestors did? They ate or utilized every single square inch of the animal they hunted for hours and killed with spears.
I am not saying we have to be that extreme, but the pendulum has swung so far in the opposite direction that people don’t know how to act as purveyors of the top of the food chain.
I mean can you imagine a 20 something year old holding an ax and chopping wood to keep his family warm during the winter?
Yeah, neither can I.
We have to get back to our roots and fundamentally change the direction our society is heading. We are so dependent on our government doing everything for us, or technology, that we don’t know how to do the most common and simplest of tasks.
I am tired of the lies. I want the real truth and science to back it up.
I hope you do too.
Be strong. Be brave.
