MEET THE “MEAT”

“How much longer do we have to keep all this fake meat in the fridge?” my wife yells from the kitchen. Over the past few days, I have stockpiled a hunk of Impossible Foods ground beef the size of a mailbox, six packages of Beyond Meat burger patties, several towers of Beyond Sausage in various flavours, and four pouches of Good Catch tuna. I wasn’t sure if she had peered into the freezer yet, but there she’d find stacks of Beyond Sausage breakfast patties lurking in a shady-looking unmarked plastic bag.

I’m a lifelong meat eater who dabbles in vegetarianism, tries not to screw up the environment and is naturally curious about all these new plant-based packaged protein