plant based meat

The Hunger Code: How to Reset Your Body's Fat Thermostat by Breaking the Ultra-Processed Food Habit

by Jason Fung  · 3 Mar 2026  · 284pp  · 76,656 words

salad dressings, fat-free yogurt “Low-fat” snacks: crackers, baked chips, pita chips Low-calorie sweeteners Commercial peanut butter Processed cheese Processed meats, lunch meats Plant-based meats Processed oils, vegetable oils, palm oil, hydrogenated oils, margarine Oat milk, rice milk Beware Processed “Health” Foods The label “plant-based” is meant to convey

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that a food is automatically healthy, but plant-based meats are a fake food that goes way, way beyond regular ultra-processed food. These “meats” are mega-processed chemistry experiments. No naturally occurring soybean, pea

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

by Tom Chivers  · 12 Jun 2019  · 289pp  · 92,714 words

the nerds who think Skynet is going to take over the world (he is endearingly protective of his nerds). We ate the Impossible Burger, a plant-based meat burger, which was produced partly with funding from OpenPhil,12 the idea being to reduce the requirement for beef and thus improve animal welfare and

Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children

by Susan Linn  · 12 Sep 2022  · 415pp  · 102,982 words

values that promote individual consumption. That brings me to a different kind of consumption. I was interested to discover that Impossible Foods, a purveyor of plant-based meat substitutes, is carving out a presence in schools. It began with a pilot program in several states where Impossible Burgers, each sporting a little flag

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change and its root causes. We are thrilled to be partnering with K-12 school districts across the country to lower barriers to access our plant-based meat for this change-making generation.52 I definitely believe that schools should teach about the root causes of global warming, and I understand that massive

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

in 2008, did better. The partnership homed in on businesses that did have a moat, and produced a few dramatic hits: as of 2021, the plant-based meat company Beyond Meat had generated 107x, the battery maker QuantumScape had made 65x, and the “smart solar” company Enphase had produced 25x. This was enough

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

by Nick Bostrom  · 26 Mar 2024  · 547pp  · 173,909 words

real world, the animal welfare promoters would presumably fan out to attack the problem from different directions—some to pursue public advocacy, others to research plant-based meat substitutes, others to fundraise, others to lobby legislators. However, we could imagine a situation in which they would all need to engage in the same

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell  · 19 Jul 2021  · 460pp  · 130,820 words

engine.” In this boom, the imitation-meat company Beyond Meat wasn’t a veggie burger maker but a “platform” like Facebook or YouTube—that made plant-based meat. The fast casual grilled cheese chain The Melt thought gizmos like an online ordering system entitled it to tech-like valuations, rather than grilled cheese

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism

by John Elkington  · 6 Apr 2020  · 384pp  · 93,754 words

listing, even though the meat alternatives company warned that it may never make a profit.56 In one of my favorite new sectors, producers of plant-based meat, chicken, egg, and fish substitutes are working toward true Green Swans—and maybe, with alternative fish products, what we might call “Blue Swans.” In addition

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Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy  · 16 Aug 2021  · 344pp  · 104,522 words

from plant-based sources like peas, beans, potatoes and brown rice” to produce its meat alternatives. Beyond Meat believes that “by shifting from animal to plant-based meat, [they] can positively impact four growing global issues: human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare.”17 According to a comparative assessment

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

by Rebecca Henderson  · 27 Apr 2020  · 330pp  · 99,044 words

, 2019, https://insideevs.com/news/342547/global-sales-december-2018-2-million-plug-in-electric-cars-sold/. 5. Kate Taylor, “3 Factors Are Driving the Plant-Based ‘Meat’ Revolution as Analysts Predict Companies Like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Could Explode into a $140 Billion Industry,” Business Insider, May 24, 2019, www.businessinsider

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-the-pace-as-product-placement-shifts/#484fe50d4f75. 15. David Yaffe-Bellany, “The New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies,” New York Times, Oct. 14, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/business/the-new-makers-of-plant-based-meat-big-meat-companies.html. 16. Hannah Ritchie and Max Roserm “Crop Yields,” Our World in

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross  · 19 Nov 2020  · 197pp  · 53,831 words

the US and labour shortages affecting production, plant-based factories, where production is more automated, saw less disruption in their supply chains. US sales of plant-based meat substitutes jumped by 265 per cent over an eight-week period, according to consumer data group Nielsen, compared with rises of just 39 per cent

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to be for traditional food companies. ‘The meat industry certainly knows plant based has arrived. [If you had told me that] the largest advertiser of plant-based meat is Burger King … a year ago I’d have said you were crazy. When you see meat companies, fast food companies, family dining chains [offering

It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook  · 20 Feb 2018  · 424pp  · 119,679 words

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food

by Chase Purdy  · 15 Jun 2020  · 232pp  · 63,803 words

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young  · 23 Aug 2021  · 326pp  · 88,968 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac  · 25 Feb 2020  · 197pp  · 49,296 words

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth

by Chris Goodall  · 30 Jan 2020  · 154pp  · 48,340 words

Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

by Alan Weisman  · 21 Apr 2025  · 599pp  · 149,014 words

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

by Bill Gates  · 16 Feb 2021  · 314pp  · 75,678 words

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature

by Beth Shapiro  · 15 Dec 2021  · 338pp  · 105,112 words

Not the End of the World

by Hannah Ritchie  · 9 Jan 2024  · 335pp  · 101,992 words