The glaring problem with plant-based meats

I just came across this article in my social media feed:

Investors bet on meat grown in a lab as interest in plant-based foods cools

Around a year ago I thought I’d try plant-based meats. I cooked Impossible Burger a couple of times. It was all right.

I eat meat but not a lot. I eat a lot of vegetables, I love vegetables. At some point, I even considered becoming a vegetarian. I was becoming a very good runner, had lost a lot of weight, and going “plant-based” seemed appealing. In the end, I didn’t become a vegetarian. Every now and then I want to eat meat and I do. Also, as I continued to run, I dag deeper into the topic of nutrition. Meat has a lot of iron. Of course, iron can be found in other foods but the point is this: for me, it’s fine to have meat every now and it has valuable nutrients.

The article above — I didn’t even open it. Read the title carefully.

“Grown in a lab”.

Fuck that.

One of my nutrition rules is to eat minimally processed foods. Processed can mean “processed” and it can also mean farm-raised. When I buy fish for example, I try to get wild, no farmed fish. I also like dishes with few ingredients and the ingredients must be identifiable visually in their initial, raw state.