<story><title>Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>As someone raised around cattle ranches, I really don&amp;#x27;t understand the animal living conditions argument.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>As far as I can tell, I&amp;#x27;m the target demographic for this.&lt;p&gt;I eat beef (and other meat) burgers because I like how they taste.  If this comes close, I&amp;#x27;ll gladly switch, even though they cost a little more.  I&amp;#x27;m far from vegetarian, but I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking more and more that I&amp;#x27;d like to slim down on my actual meat eating for a few reasons, including the environment, the animal living conditions, and the cholesterol.&lt;p&gt;The one thing I&amp;#x27;m not happy about is trading fat for carbs.  I&amp;#x27;d rather stick to the protein and fat.  But no solution is going to be perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewtoast</author><text>My understanding is that the vast majority of cattle (80%?) in the United States is raised in factory farms; the vast majority the meat Americans available to purchase grocery store, served in restaurants, and processed for fast food, is sourced from those same farms.&lt;p&gt;And my understanding is that the conditions would be horrific by almost any standard: the animals are kept confined, in extremely cramped and nasty conditions, often unable to move or turn around, all day and every day, seldom or never permitted to roam. (I&amp;#x27;m ignoring the whole antibiotics overuse question.)&lt;p&gt;When they&amp;#x27;re ready for slaughter, they&amp;#x27;re crammed into trucks and transported for hundreds of miles, in all weather, standing in their own feces. Exhausted, terrified, and freezing or overheated after transport, many are shocked with electric prods or beaten to force them back out of the trucks. Then they are hit with bolt guns to &amp;quot;stun&amp;quot; them, after which their throats are slit.&lt;p&gt;The lucky cows are unconscious before they are sawed apart, but you can bet that the types of workers who do these dirty, low-paying jobs, hundreds of times per day, as quickly as possible, without clogging up the factory line, aren&amp;#x27;t always trained well enough nor concerned whether they cause suffering.</text></comment>
<story><title>Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>As someone raised around cattle ranches, I really don&amp;#x27;t understand the animal living conditions argument.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>As far as I can tell, I&amp;#x27;m the target demographic for this.&lt;p&gt;I eat beef (and other meat) burgers because I like how they taste.  If this comes close, I&amp;#x27;ll gladly switch, even though they cost a little more.  I&amp;#x27;m far from vegetarian, but I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking more and more that I&amp;#x27;d like to slim down on my actual meat eating for a few reasons, including the environment, the animal living conditions, and the cholesterol.&lt;p&gt;The one thing I&amp;#x27;m not happy about is trading fat for carbs.  I&amp;#x27;d rather stick to the protein and fat.  But no solution is going to be perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>Well most of them don’t live on “ranches” for one.</text></comment>