Minit Stop drops the Beef

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Minit Stop is replacing beef on menu items with the all plant based Impossible Burger. They say it saves resources:

The company says that's the equivalent to removing 200 cars from the road for a year, preserving a land area of more than 400 football fields large, and saving enough water to fill 55 million standard-size water bottles.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/10/22...-its-menu/

It's ironic that by their calculation it's better for the planet if we import Impossible Burgers rather than raise meat locally. Anyone have a beef with that suggestion?

[leilanidude]

How much land and resources to plant and harvest all that "green stuff"?

Good article on the "healthiness" here:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/imp...#nutrition

[kalakoa]

if we import Impossible Burgers rather than raise meat locally

Even if Minit Stop was using local beef, the environmental impact offset probably still favors Impossible products.

Whether the Impossible Burger is actually healthier remains to be seen.

[lquade]

i have also read other studies on this. most nutritionists agreed it was a good choice if you wanted to "go green". but not a good choice for the salt content and heart health and also the carb content if you were considering the portion of the population already heading for diabetes. as in most of these products what isn't mentioned, is the other ingredients that make a soy bean taste like a hamburger. it is that series of ingredients, i always refer to as industrial waste that they forget to list in the health reports...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The man behind the Impossible Burger is a force of nature. Whatever the burger is now, it’s taste, ingredients, carbon footprint, it will be different in the future as the company is constantly innovating. More likely than not, many more restaurants and grocery stores in Hawaii will go beefless, chickenless, and porkless in the coming years. Minit Stop is just the first.

If you’d like to read about the big picture, the direction in which the founder of Impossible Foods intends to go, and how he does in fact plan to pry that beef burger out of your hands:
Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/...ate-change

[Punatic007]

I was pretty shocked to see my friends very macho professional military husband who balks at me if I use the word natural when referring to food prefers the impossible burger. That must be some kinda good advertising gimmick to get beyond his rough all american beef and apple pie mentality. Yikes.

[keaau mary]

I checked out the ingredients and one of the main ingredients is soy protein. For anyone who has had a hormone influenced cancer, ie most breast cancers, this meat is a big No No. The soy mimics estrogen in the body which is what feeds these cancers. Not sure what it would do to men with prostate issues taking hormones either. Just an FYI.

Mahalo!

[terracore]

The Impossible burger is impossible without it's secret ingredient, a GMO yeast that has never been studied or consumed by humans before. There are other GMO products in the fake meat as well. I find it very strange that they are ditching natural food over this Frankenstein plant-based laboratory / factory concoction.

And doing my due diligence, I tried the "Impossible Whopper" at the Pahoa Burger King. It was HORRIBLE! It looked like meat but that is where the similarity ended. The *only* reason I finished it was because it cost $9. Not for a "meal" or "burger with a drink", just Bland Factory Food that tasted like sadness and regret. Never again.

Minit Stop is owned by Saltchuk, the same company that owns Aeko Kula, dba Aloha Air Cargo (and many other corporations including two other airlines). As a family run company, they do not have to answer to shareholders. So if somebody there thinks feeding fake Frankenfood is superior to feeding locally grown natural food.... they probably hold a lot of shares of the Impossible Burger corporation.

"They say is saves on resources"

Their primary business is petroleum distribution, and fake food is the sword they fall on? OMG!

[Seeb]

Given the demographic that eats at gas station. Don’t think it’s gonna go over big.

[kalakoa]

This was all covered in last week's South Park...