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by ablation 2581 days ago
Regardless of veracity of OP's claims on Twitter, it's worth noting he sells "bone broth" and other animal-derived health and fitness products. There's always a dog in the fight somewhere.
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Also this gem

> Spoiler alert - I am incredibly skeptical, and am short $BYND

So...sells his own bullshit superfood, and is short on BYND. Welp, I'm convinced that he's completely unbiased and only interested in the greater good.

Makes a lot of sense now. Read the comments in that twitter thread. There are people there who think a beef patty isn't considered a "processed food". Wow, I just don't know what to say. Also you can kinda tell people commenting kinda have an agenda when they're using terms like "fake meat".
There are people there who think a beef patty isn't considered a "processed food"

Where do you draw the line with processed? A beef patty is in essence just a steak, ground up, and mushed together. Now there are no doubt some more unsavory purveyors of beef patties that do more than that, but in itself I find it hard to argue that a beef patty (which I can trivially make myself in my own kitchen using only a chefs knife) counts as processed.

edit: that being said, I don't find his overall argument persuasive at all and it's not like he's a neutral scientist.

> A beef patty is in essence just a steak, ground up, and mushed together.

Some beef patties are ground steak.

Others use mechanically recovered meat, where the bones left after butchering are sprayed with high pressure water to blast off any remaining scraps of meat.

One country had significant health scare where MRM was thought to be the highest risk product: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm

Can you still buy MRM beef patties in the US? From what I can find the process has been banned since 2004
The US still allows "pink slime", which is a different form of MRM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#Current_use