The Impossible Whopper is being advertised by Burger King as a plant-based alternative to the Whopper. When food manufacturers started talking about making artificial meat, I too thought it would be impossible to make a hamburger cheaply enough to make it competitive. You see, I assumed that they would have to buy the individual amino acids (the building blocks for protein) and chemically string them together in the proper order, then remove the reagents (chemicals needed to cause the chain reactions) and then add something to give it the right textures.
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Opinion: Impossible Burger doesn’t measure up to the real thing
The Fosters’ bulls that do not qualify for sale are slaughtered for hamburger, which adds to their salvage value.
Veterinarian Jim Stangle shares some additional thoughts after getting a healthy response to his opinion on the Impossible Burger.
