[portofcall]

Adulterating food with cheap alternatives is a way to disproportionately screw over poor people. Everyone else will just add beef to their “buy organic 100%...” list of products and pay a premium. If you want to help poeple, help them, educate them, don’t patronize them. If you want to help the environment there are economic (hold companies financially responsible for externalities) and scientific ways (additives such as seaweee to cow feed to drastically reduce methane emissions).

It’s a nasty and unfair thing to assume that when someone gets a burger, they’re “overdoing it” every time. Plenty of people have an occasional burger and just want beef, not filler. For people living in food deserts, and people poorly educated or just poor, how about giving their kids healthy and edible school food? How about heavily subsidizing healthier foods for people on food assistance, and going out of our way to make those options readily available? How about bringing back Home Ec?

[KozmoNau7]

Eating beef is disproportionately bad for the environment (and your health) and should accordingly be priced at a premium.

You can't fix it effectively through changing the feed or livestock farming practices, you have to replace the beef with a fundamentally less harmful alternative.

[testvox]

Why not both? Not everyone wants to pay a premium for a 100% beef burger when they could be eating a cheaper, healthier alternative. Having more options is better not worse.

[KozmoNau7]

I would certainly buy the 10% cheaper, healthier and less environmentally harmful burger, as long as it tastes as good as the all beef burger. It doesn't have to taste the same, just similarly good.

[kbutler]

It was interesting to check out the marketing on the Sonic website: "Cheeseburgers Prepare to be delighted with 100% pure beef..."