A good fake meat burger beats a bad or mediocre beef burger any day.

But nothing still beats a premium beef burger.

For fucking real! I got some when it was on clearance and it could've fooled me. I also kinda liked Boca burgers way back in the day when my mom used to keep the freezer stocked with them.

Without the Chinese purchases, the prices are too low to make harvesting profitable or at least if they have no buyer, they get no profit. The beans will die and rot in the fields. Then next year comes around and they don't have any money to plant new crops. I am not sure if insurance for crops is a thing anymore in the US but next spring the fields might be empty.

I tried some last week for the first time, and it is borderline a food crime. I was making some home made mcmuffins and tried them side by side with real eggs. It might be okay if it's consumed with other ingredients like a breakfast burrito, maybe, but on its own or where it can stand out, just no.

I'm happy that it's there for those willing to try or on a restricted diet/vegan lifestyle, but it would not sell as a direct egg replacement for regular folk in my opinion.

From https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/beyond-beef/ground

They feed cows corn, and because the cow's stomachs aren't well evolved to digest corn, they have to feed them antibiotics constantly, thus making cows the number one consumer of antibiotics in the country. I know this because both of these operations are subsidized by my taxes and are therefore a matter of public record.