This is a topic that has been weighing heavily on me since I first became aware of it a few years ago (around 2018). The Just Egg product had been hyped since as far back as 2014 or '15 as a revolutionary new vegan egg product. It finally started appearing…
  • piccolo [any]
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    6 months ago

    Highly recommend this article for understanding why JUST and Impossible aren't vegan companies. I've been avoiding their products ever since I first read it (well actually I knew about Impossible before this one). I think it gives a lot of good details about the process and why they didn't need to perform the animal tests. Both companies are unwilling to guarantee they wouldn't do it again, also :(

    • 🏴 hamid abbasi [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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      6 months ago

      It is a great article and a conclusion I didn't draw naturally myself but once I saw it I couldn't un-see it with regards to veganism and how capitalism interacts with it. This is why I promote making food from scratch and bypassing the food processing industries as much as you can within you control - these value-add businesses are carnist and do not share my values so I don't want to help them profit.