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[Bitmap Frogs]

Bit of old news since this happened in april but...

For those who don't know, Epicurious (owned by Conde Nast) is one of the largest food-focused brands along its sister brand Bon Appetit. They have a huge audience, with about 7M of their users cooking daily at home and spending over 50B in buying food and going to restaurants.

Here's the announcement: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/why-epicurious-left-beef-behind-article

There's been many, many reactions but here's one from the washington post (guess amazon likes selling beef): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/30/my-beef-with-epicurious/

 

[M1chl]

Understandable when 41% of the land of USA is dedicated to cattle raising:
41% of Land in Contiguous US Is Used to Feed Livestock (treehugger.com)

 

[segasonic]

This is not going to save the planet.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Well there's a recipe website I'll never use again.

 

[theclaw135]

Frankly I feel for the animals wasted on crummy fast food.

Melt in your mouth brisket or the like, puts B-grade tacos and hamburgers to shame.

 

[Wildebeest]

It's a bold strategy. Let's see how it works out for them.

 

[Thaedolus]

By all means, bring on the lab wagyu. Labyu. Until then, give me that natural bovine baby I’m hungry

 

[Spukc]

If everyone would just the not eat meat for 2 days of the week. It would already massively help. I never understood vegans.. such an extreme.
Variation is key.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

We just need to teach these damn cows not to fart so much.

 

[AJUMP23]

Bit of old news since this happened in april but...

For those who don't know, Epicurious (owned by Conde Nast) is one of the largest food-focused brands along its sister brand Bon Appetit. They have a huge audience, with about 7M of their users cooking daily at home and spending over 50B in buying food and going to restaurants.

Here's the announcement: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/why-epicurious-left-beef-behind-article

There's been many, many reactions but here's one from the washington post (guess amazon likes selling beef): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/30/my-beef-with-epicurious/

Conde Nast, isn't that the racist organization that banned people of color from appearing in the majority of their youtube videos, and paid minorities less money simply because they thought they could.

Seems ironic to ban beef.

 

[German Hops]

 

[ManaByte]

We have reached Demolition Man.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Is this the same company that makes the epicure spices? I'm assuming so? My wife buys that shit all the time.

 

[mansoor1980]

soon

 

[Sakura]

Well if you want to be serious about stopping climate change this is the kind of thing you gotta do, so can't knock them for doing what they're doing.
People still gonna eat meat though.

 

[epicnemesis]

We just need to teach these damn cows not to fart so much.

This can apparently be done by introducing some sort of seaweed or algae to their diet.

I’m really over all these companies trying to do more than just provide a good or service. Just up and take my money, or in this case monetize me.

 

[Kimahri]

If everyone would just the not eat meat for 2 days of the week. It would already massively help. I never understood vegans.. such an extreme.
Variation is key.

They're easier to understand than wannabe carnivores who take the suggestions of being meat free one or two days a week is an attack on their human rights.

 

[BigBooper]

By all means, bring on the lab wagyu. Labyu. Until then, give me that natural bovine baby I’m hungry

Mmmm ....bovine baby.

 

[SiteSeer]

i feel like this is some class warfare type of bs. do you really think the investors and owners of conde nast are giving up beef steak while reaping in the dividends? nah. this stuff is for the plebs.

 

[Spukc]

They're easier to understand than wannabe carnivores who take the suggestions of being meat free one or two days a week is an attack on their human rights.

 

[Irobot82]

what is epicurious and who is Conde Nast and why should I care that they think or do?

 

[German Hops]

It's a bold strategy. Let's see how it works out for them.

You know, eating ants combined with guacamole doesn't sound all that bad.

 

[*Nightwing]

 

[Kimahri]

You know, eating ants combined with guacamole doesn't sound all that bad.

I tried dried grasshopper. Now I don't know of flavors were adddd. But it had a pretty nice zesty taste to it. But it's basically air in a shell.

 

[German Hops]

I tried dried grasshopper. Now I don't know of flavors were adddd. But it had a pretty nice zesty taste to it. But it's basically air in a shell.

aye, you might want to go for fresh grasshopper.

More protein, more fulfilling, and it will even put a bounce in your step!

 

[dcll]

Well I’m certain not curious about that recipe site

 

[Kimahri]

aye, you might want to go for fresh grasshopper.

More protein, more fulfilling, and it will even put a bounce in your step!

Slimy, yet satisfying?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I'll eat the beef right off a cow's ass if I have to. I'm never giving it up. I've cut down a bit in recent years though. I eat chicken or pork the other days of the week lol

 

[Gp1]

I'll eat the beef right off a cow's ass if I have to.

Technically speaking this is the top sirloin cap or the Brazilian picanha. Which is awesome for barbecue

 

[OrtizTwelve]

I’m sure the wealthy executives at Condé Nast and Epicurious are doing their part by not eating expensive steaks at expensive restaurants, nor running the ac too cold in their lavish homes, and definitely not traveling via private jet, all in order to save the planet.

I am 100% sure.

(Yeah right)

 

[TTOOLL]

Fuck all these virtue signaling motherfuckers.

 

[Tranquil]

What does this do? People who eat beef will go to another website, this hasn't changed anything.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

What does this do? People who eat beef will go to another website, this hasn't changed anything.

virtue signaling. As TTOOLL said

 

[Zenaku]

 

[NickFire]

I'm guessing they knew what was coming in terms of beef price inflation and wanted to get ahead of it.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Is this the same company that makes the epicure spices? I'm assuming so? My wife buys that shit all the time.

Doesn't seem like they're related. Epicurus was an ancient philosopher.

 

[RAL1992]

 

[Liljagare]

Wild Boar/Deer can sub in most nations.

Beef cattle is such a waste, and the farmed stuff tastes like crap. You can taste the stress in most beef.

 

[zeorhymer]

Let them eat bugs.

 

[Robot Carnival]

how about we reduce the human population instead of the bovine population? I don't even mind eating bugs. I've eaten bugs before. but I still like beef and I sure can use less idiots around the world.

 

[BigBooper]

how about we reduce the human population instead of the bovine population? I don't even mind eating bugs. I've eaten bugs before. but I still like beef and I sure can use less idiots around the world.

That's the solution!

 

[LordCBH]

Well that’s fucking retarded

 

[ManaByte]

In a few years normal people will be living in the sewers eating rat burgers while these freaks try to have sex with hololens helmets on.

 

[haxan7]

Anyone who wants to hinder or remove my ability to eat a steak has formally declared themselves as my enemy.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

The wealthy people ordering you to eat bugs will be dining on fillets while they laugh at you.

 

[bender]

The solution isn't to eat less meat, but rather to have less humans. Way less humans. Modern medicine has doomed this planet.

 

[Aesius]

The wealthy people ordering you to eat bugs will be dining on fillets while they laugh at you.

This is really what it boils down to. The poors were getting too big for their britches (quite literally) and they don't like it so they're going to ensure we live true underclass lives and make modern luxuries and conveniences off-limits to us.

 

[haxan7]

This is really what it boils down to. The poors were getting too big for their britches (quite literally) and they don't like it so they're going to ensure we live true underclass lives and make modern luxuries and conveniences off-limits to us.

Fallacious argument. Wealth does not equal an oppressive class that wants to deprive others of rights.

Do better.

 

[IDKFA]

Understandable when 41% of the land of USA is dedicated to cattle raising:
41% of Land in Contiguous US Is Used to Feed Livestock (treehugger.com)

True. A simple solution would be to ban fast food outlets. This would result in less cattle being raised, but people could still purchase raw beef for cooking at home.

 

[moniker]

By all means, bring on the lab wagyu. Labyu. Until then, give me that natural bovine baby I’m hungry

Yeah, about that.

Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenetrable “Wall of No”—his term for the barriers in thermodynamics, cell metabolism, bioreactor design, ingredient costs, facility construction, and other factors that will need to be overcome before cultivated protein can be produced cheaply enough to displace traditional meat.

“And it’s a fractal no,” he told me. “You see the big no, but every big no is made up of a hundred little nos.”