We all know it without even having to consider it – the average person is more concerned about how they affect climate change, harm other organisms, and otherwise do bad to others than they’ve ever been.
In recent years – it’s a trend that is likely to become even more popular as the years go by – people have flocked to vegan and vegetarian diets because they don’t support how the animal industrial complex is thought to drastically reduce the quality of life of cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals that are raised and harvested en masse in order to feed humans despite the fact we don’t need to rely on animals as nearly as much as we currently do.
Another reason why people have turned to meat-, dairy-, and egg-free lifestyles is that farming animals such as pigs and cows as extensively as we currently do is because they have been proven to be responsible for the excessive production of methane and other greenhouse gases that accelerate human-caused climate change.
Although people will likely eat meat for as long as our species lives here on planet Earth, a handful of startups such as Impossible Foods have attempted to develop ways of creating beef, poultry, pork, and other popular meats without raising and harvesting cows, chickens, or pigs from the womb to adulthood. Rather, Impossible Foods has proven to the world that it has been able to create these types of meat in controlled laboratory settings.
The methodologies used by Impossible Foods, although they haven’t been refined nearly as much as they need to be in order to be viable on a widespread, commercial level, don’t cause mammals to be raised in a manner in which they’re unlikely to get as much utility from life as if they were to roam free. Further, Impossible Foods’ methodologies drastically reduce the carbon footprint left behind by the production of meat.
Impossible Foods recently inked a deal with OSI Group, a big-time manufacturer of hamburger, chicken sandwich, and pork patties for fast food restaurants around the United States, as a means of satisfying current levels of demand requested by the modern lab-grown meat market.
In 59 stores across the United States, Burger King has started to sell its Impossible Whopper, which, as you can probably guess, features beef patties grown in laboratory settings by Impossible Foods. With OSI Group’s help, Impossible Foods could soon be able to satisfy the demand necessitated by some 7,000 Burger King locations.
