But after reading a recent investigation by the Cornucopia Institute, I'm going to be a lot more picky: The food and agriculture nonprofit found that most non-organic veggie burgers currently on the market are made with the chemical hexane, an EPA-registered air pollutant and neurotoxin.
In order to meet the demands of health-conscious consumers, manufacturers of soy-based fake meat like to make their products have as little fat as possible. The cheapest way to do this is by submerging soybeans in a bath of hexane to separate the oil from the protein. Says Cornucopia Institute senior researcher Charlotte Vallaeys, "If a non-organic product contains a soy protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, or texturized vegetable protein, you can be pretty sure it was made using soy beans that were made with hexane".'
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Most soy products these days are GM derived. I have avoided eating anything 'soy' since the days I studied Biochemistry at college.
ReplyDeleteStudying science is excellent knowledge for everyday life, whether or not you take it up as a career in later life.
Anyway, I eat meat and I enjoy eating it. Now, why is it that these vegetarian foods always resemble meat in some way....I don't get it.
I had a friend who after eating meat all hi life, suddenly announced that he was now strictly vegetarian. (His dad died of cancer, maybe this had something to do with it). Anyway, we would all go out for a meal or to a takeaway place/restaurant etc, and he was limited in his choice of food on the menu. We would all go to a Chicken takeaway, seeing as he couldn't eat meat, we would all leave to find a restaurant with a mixed menu. A few years later, we all went out for someone's birthday function, and there he was tucking into fried fish, chicken wings, meat and goodness knows what...I said to him, I thought you were a vegetarian, he said "I gave up"....LOL
Vegetarian burgers, vegetarian sausages etc...Why not just come up with something original instead of them copying meat derived foods? Why not just eat vegetables instead of making them look like the meat alternatives?
I just don't get it.