I rarely eat meat, maybe once every two or three weeks. But I've noticed that it gives me energy, and if I eat it at night it can keep me awake. So there must be something in meat protein that is not to be found in beans, cheese and taufu.
Yeah, I get that, I just don't really see the appeal of eating some ultra-processed junk that's worse than the original junk food and held together with God knows what to make it resemble something that's pretty nasty in its original form. Doesn't a bean burger satisfy the urge for a junky burger, and it's a better product?
Don't beat yourself up, it's not a religion. Perfection doesn't have to be the enemy of the good, an improvement is an improvement.
Something in meat, possibly. Meat protein itself, not really. Animal proteins contain all of the 9 essential amino acids in the human diet and are therefore a "complete protein". Plant proteins taken individually don't, so you have to have a variety of plant proteins to get the full set. Absence of an essential amino acid for a sustained period won't give you low energy or keep you awake, it will cause you to waste away and it will eventually kill you. If you don't have all the amino acids you need then you won't be able to build or repair proteins and you will literally fall apart. Skin and hair falls off, teeth fall out, muscles waste away, and that's just the bits that you can see. It would not be a nice way to go.
We came to that conclusion with the veggie alternatives also, what exactly is in there. bean burgers, good shout as we have forgotten about them, will look up some recipes
Bean burgers are great, because it's real food. Mash up some beans, chickpeas, whatever, with some other interesting stuff (onions, garlic, herbs, veg) to make it tasty, make a burger, fry it up and off you go.
C'mon, you're talking to a food technologist here. I can make them nice and moist without having to put bits of meat in there.
That reminds me of the Patrick Moraz auditioning for Yes story.
It just serves the same purpose as meat based junk food. It's cheap and convenient. You get home from work and you're both knackered and can't face cooking from scratch. Quorn sausages take ten minutes under the grill and are satisfyingly hot and fatty. You don't want to eat that stuff every day but it serves it's purpose now and then.
Quite courageous eviscerating and butchering a deer. I've done it, I know.
Haha! I had a couple of awkward evenings being entertained by the Frankfurt office... the working lunch I attended in the Paris office was even worse (though the booze was better!)
When I make veggy burgers I know what I’m putting in them; you assume I buy the packaged vegan shit. Justifying eating meat by slagging off veg is daft. There are places in India that are predominantly vegetarian, like the state of Gujarat with a population of 60 million – they’re doing ok on a plant based diet. I prefer to get my nutritional info from experts. And use my instincts.
