To follow up:
This article talks about it in depth.
We can't forget that plant-based meats aren't automatically healthy just because they're environmentally friendly. Here's all you should know!
www.onegreenplanet.org
This from Harvard health is a little more succinct.
Plant-based burgers designed to taste like meat are being marketed to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike as nutritious, earth-friendly alternatives to animal protein. How two well-known brands stack...
www.health.harvard.edu
TLDR: From a health perspective, Impossible/Beyond (Pea-isolate type products), are about as "bad" for you as a regular burger. High in saturated fats and additionally are higher in processed stuff than regular meat. So, seems like, as vegans, we should watch how much we eat of it the same way a carnivore should watch their red meat consumption. The benefits however, are there vs red meat consumption. Of course no animals were harmed in the process which is a big win but additionally, the impact on the environment is significantly less than beef. Ill quote the article... “Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, has more than 99% less impact on water scarcity and has 93% less impact on land use than a quarter pound of U.S. beef.” That’s a huge difference and one that our planet desperately needs! Similar results have been discovered with the Impossible Burger, showing that this type of food product has an
89 percent small carbon footprint “than a burger made from real beef.” On top of that,
the Impossible Burger “reduces environmental impacts in every category studied, resulting in use of 87% less water, 96% less land, 89% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and 92% fewer aquatic pollutants.”
As long as you are eating well in most other ways, I think it is a good thing and can't hurt to consume in moderation.
