Faux Meat, Inflation Woes, Chicken Feet, Future Food, and More!
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Here are some fun and interesting stories to start the week off with! From faux meat to the future of food, if you’re in the mood for some light reading then you’re at the right place!
Faux Meat Faces Slower Than Hoped Growth
Well, we can’t say we haven’t seen this coming. Faux Meat or “Meatless” meats have shown lackluster growth over the past year. Compared with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic where sales of fake meat grew 200% at retail outlet, the numbers for last year has dramatically slowed down according to an article on Forbes.
Despite claims and hopes that consumers will flock to fake meat because of their taste and texture, this development only reinforces what we’ve been saying all along. Nothing beats the taste of a real burger made from pastured beef!
Read the full article on Forbes here.
How Inflation is Making Families Eat Healthier (and better!)
We all know that inflation is no laughing matter with food costs and prices all going up but according to a report by CNN, it is actually changing the way people eat. Inflation has caused many people to dine out less often and enjoy more home-cooked meals. Some folks have even started growing their own vegetable gardens, homesteading for the win! While others have reduced serving sizes to regular-sized servings and making sure to avoid food waste.
Of course not everything is rainbows and sunshine as the rising food costs have driven people to buy more pre-packaged bulk groceries. Would be the best time to tell them to support local farmers and farmers markets if they want more access to fresh and healthy produce.
Read the full article on CNN here.
It’s That Time of The Year Again for Scaremongering
Every year there’s something else that seems to come out about dangerous candy (well, it is actually dangerous because of all the sugar in them, but that’s another issue) on Halloween. This year, it’s Fentanyl. That’s right, according to US Senator Tommy Tuberville and a few other politicians, drug traffickers are packaging fentanyl pills as candy to drive addiction among children and adults. If we believe every little issue that comes out every Halloween with candy being laced with something dangerous, then we’d have a really high body count.
One of the foremost leading researchers on tainted candy, Joel Best has reviewed media accounts dating back to 1958 and the results are… well… quite shocking. There has been ZERO deaths linked to tampered candy during Halloween! His conclusion? This fear mongering is nothing more than a part of a generational urban legend that will not die (no pun intended).
Read the Full Article on Al.com here.
Investments Pour in for the Future of Food
We love zero-waste, sustainable, and resilient food systems but we don’t really know exactly how to feel about this one. A biotechnology developer, Innovafeed has raised $250 million in a round of Series D funding. What does the company do? They specialize in insects for the use in animal and plant nutrition. So yeah, insect proteins for aquaculture, insect oils for pigs and poultry, and insect droppings in 100% natural pertilizer.
Truly sustainable animal feeds and 100% natural fertilizer is something that is worth researching in our book, but we will have to see where everything leads. Let’s just hope that they don’t start developing human food using black solder flies!
Read the news on FoodBusinessNews here.
A World Record for Eating… Chicken Feet?
4.26 ounces of chicken feet in 60 seconds. That’s a lot of chicken feet! Vuyolwethu Simanile, competing against her colleagues from the Mashamplanes Lounge restaurant and bar in Umlazi, Durban won with a comfortable lead over the other competitors.
Check out the video post on UPI here.
What is McDonald’s Thinking? Launching Happy Meals for Adults
Well… Now we’ve seen everything. Happy meals for adults.
We don’t really know if this is a nostalgia play or just McDonalds trying to recapture a generation that has weaned off of eating fast food, but aside from the really ugly (or hipster looking, depending on how you look at it) toys included, well, there’s nothing really special about it. It comes with a Big Mac or Nuggets, basically, yeah, I really don’t know. Flabbergasted I guess.
