Saw this in the NYT today
There Is Nothing More All-American Than the Veggie Burger
By Carol J. Adams
Ms. Adams has been a vegan for 25 years.
I'll post a link to it at the bottom but the article lies behind a "paywall". if you don't normally visit the NYT then you should have no problem reading it. Or if you are a subscriber.
I'll go ahead and paste in a few quotes. Just in case you can't read it and also to give you the gist of it or the motivation to read it.
" Think of the hamburger as a single-portion protein patty and you locate its predecessors not in the ground horse meat of the conquering Tartars but in falafel, nut cutlets, veggie croquettes and millennium-old Indian-fried, protein-rich lentil or bean patties"
"For almost as long as the hamburger has been served, plant-based approximations have been nipping at its heels. Under the pressure of meat rationing during World War II, hamburger makers discovered that years of food experimentation by companies serving the vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist population had resulted in several viable veggie burgers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/...more-all-american-than-the-veggie-burger.html
There Is Nothing More All-American Than the Veggie Burger
By Carol J. Adams
Ms. Adams has been a vegan for 25 years.
I'll post a link to it at the bottom but the article lies behind a "paywall". if you don't normally visit the NYT then you should have no problem reading it. Or if you are a subscriber.
I'll go ahead and paste in a few quotes. Just in case you can't read it and also to give you the gist of it or the motivation to read it.
" Think of the hamburger as a single-portion protein patty and you locate its predecessors not in the ground horse meat of the conquering Tartars but in falafel, nut cutlets, veggie croquettes and millennium-old Indian-fried, protein-rich lentil or bean patties"
"For almost as long as the hamburger has been served, plant-based approximations have been nipping at its heels. Under the pressure of meat rationing during World War II, hamburger makers discovered that years of food experimentation by companies serving the vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist population had resulted in several viable veggie burgers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/...more-all-american-than-the-veggie-burger.html