Are Plant Based Meat Healthier Than Real Meat?

WHAT ABOUT EATING MEAT WITHOUT SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS?

This statement is a fascinating one and many questions arise with this? What is vegan meat? How it is prepared? What are the benefits of vegan mean? Why not slaughtered meat?
Plant based meat is similar to animal based meat product in sense of its organoleptic properties which include a great combination of either one or more alternative protein ingredients.
SOME OF THE POPULAR BASED MEAT PRODUCTS:

• Most popular Beyond Meat Beyond sausage (plant based meat).
• Impossible food burger patty (plant based meat).
They have evolved a new era of eating meat.
There are various methods through which we can make meat without causing harm to animals like Plant Based Meat, Fermentation, and Animal Cell Culture.

WHY THERE IS NEED OF PLANT BASED MEAT?

It is the scariest thing that crops which are fed to animals to produce meat require 9 calories are fed to gain 1 calorie of flesh. So most of the land associated with farming is contributed to feeding more to the animals for the production of meat rather than to humans.
This is a major problem that results in malnourishment. Animals are also treated in an inhuman way at a slaughterhouse. Animal agriculture is one of the main reasons for causing pollution and affecting global climate change.
There are many drawbacks to eating animal based meat. We cannot stop people from eating meat because it is the most important part of the diet of most people. So what we can do is to bring a certain and desirable change in the production of meat from plants rather than animals. Plants based meat does not affect the environment or animals.

IS PLANT BASED MEAT BETTER THAN ANIMAL BASED MEAT?

So this is one of the utmost questions while opting for plant based meat. People who eat animal based meat like its texture and taste which is irreplaceable. So, this is a misconception that plant based meat cannot mimic animal based meat.
Plant based meat purely mimics animal based meat in terms of its organoleptic properties and thus it is also cost effective way of eating meat.

Some of the companies which are working well in plant based meat sector are BEYOND MEAT, QUORN, IMPOSSIBLE, etc.
So it would be a highly economic and effective way if we will divert our way towards eating plant based meat which includes no harm to animals.

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Parvani Sharma

Pursuing MBA in Food and AgriBusiness From National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, Haryana, India