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Is Fake Meat "Food"

It is made in a lab... by smart people ... Lab-grown foods such as the Impossible Burger represent the ultimate conflict in health information: "Experts" tell us that plant-based diets are healthy, but we're also told that processed foods are unhealthy. The Impossible Burger, the Beyond Burger and other faux meat products are plant-based but highly processed "foods". Not only a highly processed product, but highly processed ingredients. Seed and vegetable oils are processed just like petro chemicals. Heat, pressure and chemicals refine the oils to be edible. So processed ingredients are combined with other processed ingredients and called "food". Although the safety of the heme in Impossible Burgers has been criticized over the years because it's a genetically engineered product, no current research suggests it's actually unsafe. Unfortunately, the FDA does not require proof that food is safe. It only pulls food off the market that is proven u...