Dunkin’ Donuts is launching the Beyond Sausage Sandwich — another plant-based “meat “option like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger — at numerous locations around the nation beginning November 6, according to Business Insider.
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Dunkin' Donuts is the largest fast-food chain to offer a plant-based "meat" option nationwide. It follows in the footsteps of other fast food chains that are marketing plant-based meat dressed up as burgers and chicken. And the makers of this fake meat are touting the advantages of their products against real meat.
Impossible Foods — maker of the bleeding Impossible Burger, a meat substitute using GMO soy — has attacked regenerative ranching, claiming grass fed cattle ranching generates higher amounts of greenhouse gas emissions than cows raised in CAFOs, which is simply not true when considering all relevant factors.
Impossible Foods also claims that since meat from cows requires about 30 pounds of corn and soy for every pound produced, GMO soy burgers reduce the net use of herbicides. But while this is true for livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), it’s absolutely not the case for organic grass fed beef production, as pastured cattle eat grasses and never GMO grains of any kind.
While GMO soy burgers may have an environmentally competitive advantage over CAFO beef, they simply can’t compete with regenerative grazing as far as herbicide usage is concerned.
Herbicides are a growing environmental hazard. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are warning that a dead zone the size of Massachusetts may develop in the Gulf this summer, thanks to heavy rains washing agricultural chemicals off farmland.
Ultraprocessed foods typically have five or more ingredients, many of which are not commonly used in home kitchens — the very definition of the Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger. The real truth is ultraprocessed foods have contributed to the obesity epidemic, rising rates of cardiovascular disease and an increased risk of all-cause mortality.
Yet, manufacturers add to the fake ingredient list of these “burgers” with the creation of fake blood from genetically engineered yeast to mimic the taste and texture of real beef and to make it “bleed” like real meat.
Although the soy-like hemoglobin used in the Impossible Burger is classified as “generally recognized as safe,” no tests have been done by independent labs on the product’s safety. When tests on lab rats altered the animals’ blood chemistry, the company did not follow up on the results.
The new Impossible Whopper bills itself as “100% Whopper, 0% beef.” Instead of a hamburger patty made with beef, the highly processed fake burger features an Impossible patty, which is made mostly of soy protein, potato protein, coconut oil, sunflower oil and heme, derived from genetically engineered yeast.
To save the planet and support your health, skip the fake meat alternatives and opt for real food that’s being raised the right way instead — namely grass fed biodynamic foods.