TLDR: lots of salt and artificial flavourings. But a lot of interesting chemistry goes into it too. There are annealing steps, and many other processes I don’t understand.
TLDR: lots of salt and artificial flavourings. But a lot of interesting chemistry goes into it too. There are annealing steps, and many other processes I don’t understand.
Real meat is rotting flesh, which may have traces of antibiotics, growth hormones, bleach in it. Let’s not act like animal flesh is wholesome. https://theconversation.com/chlorine-washed-chicken-qanda-food-safety-expert-explains-why-us-poultry-is-banned-in-the-eu-81921
Exactly. And I trust a plant based product processed in a highly controlled facility with some artificial compounds synthesised in an even more highly controlled facility, way more than meat cut out of a pen of obese animals crammed together, with not even enough room to avoid shitting and pissing on each other.
In the most deprived parts of the world, yes, safe food is just not available. But most of the world does not have these problems.
It’s the USA, generally not considered deprived, where meat is likely to be tainted with growth hormones, chlorine, antibiotics, as byproducts of food being treated as a commodity to be made as cheaply as possible.
That’s what I’m saying. Lack of access to a basic quality of food sounds like deprivation to me.
But this is already off topic.