Bird Flu (H5N1) starting to infect mammal species

[Danny McG]

Once the milk is pasteurized the virus is dead and can't infect anything

She said she'd like to bathe in milk, he said, "All right, sweetheart, "
And when he'd finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said "Do you want it pasteurised 'cos pasteurised is best?"
She said "Ernie, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chest"

 

[Montero]

Which reminds me, from way back when
"What's the fastest thing in the world?"
"I don't know."
"Milk."
"Wot?"
"It's pasteurized before you see it."

 

[Swank]

It's inevitable that meat will be replaced by plant-based substitutes that will claim the taste, texture etc are identical. They won't be, but after a short time people will either have forgotten what it tasted like, or never eaten it at all.

Of course, there will still be the real thing available to the rich elite.

And the cloned stuff.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Meat substitutes are coming into play for a variety of reasons but the cost is what will probably convince most people to eat it. The cheap vegetable based meat market hasn't arrived yet, but it's on it's way. People trying to sell meat substitutes are thinking if it's connected to meat it has to be expensive.

Even the price of spam has gone up. According to google's AI, which relies on only the best sources and claims it got this from a Hormel June 2022 company announcement, the price of spam has gone up "to cover higher costs for packaging, transportation, meat, and avocados." Google's AI is no fun because you can't tell it it is wrong.

I can't wait to see apple's new AI endowed phone.

Substitutes made for meat would sell a lot better if it was not marketed as a meat substitute but instead it was billed as just another vegetable dish or maybe an exciting vegetable dish. Get someone famous like the ho ho green giant back out there pushing some product name no one ever heard of. Its called celebrity endorsements. Right now the substitute meat makers are relying on product recognition, in this case the word meat, to do all the selling for them, with little to show for it.

It's just like Indy authors including part of a famous author's famous book title as part of their own title, hoping people will find their book when searching for the real thing. Plenty of authors have included the name Frankenstein in their book titles, even Dean Koontz did it. But I would say his name sells the book more than his use of the word Franenstein.

 

[paranoid marvin]

You make meat bad for your health, wealth and social status. Look what has happened with fur clothing, high sugar content soda drinks and smoking. You don't need to ban (at least not at first), you just need to get the momentum moving in the right direction.

The move to try to feed an ever expanding world population with animal-based products is fraught with danger, and something that simply cannot be maintained. The mass production of artificial, plant based foodstuffs is the only way forward. Make it cheap, make it low calorie; highlight the negative health risks of meat and the positive health benefits of the alternative, and consumers will make the right choice.