{"id":850,"date":"2021-05-13T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmstand.chee.studio\/why-im-not-always-over-the-moon-for-meatless-meat\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:54:04","slug":"why-im-not-always-over-the-moon-for-meatless-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/why-im-not-always-over-the-moon-for-meatless-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Not Always Over The Moon For Meatless Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Por <a href=\"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/team\/jessica-culpepper\/\">Jessica Culpepper<\/a><br>Executive Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few industries rival the devastation of industrial animal agriculture. It is a major driver of climate change, the leading cause of surface water pollution, and the basis of antibiotic resistance and food-borne illness. Its cruelty to workers and animals is unmatched and its impacts are disproportionately felt by Black and brown communities and lower income areas. <strong>This industry needs a cure that goes beyond addressing its symptoms, one that gets at the underlying disease: unchecked corporate control of the food system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been in this field long enough to learn that there\u2019s no silver bullet to curing the destructive industry that is animal agribusiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One potential solution in the sustainable food arena is all the rage: meatless\/alternative\/plant-based \u2018meat.\u2019 Its promise is to replace animal meat consumption and therefore reduce the harm caused by industrial animal agriculture. You may have had a taste of this solution yourself, in the form of a Beyond or Impossible burger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe you\u2019ve read about it recently in the New York Times in an op-ed penned by Ezra Klein: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/24\/opinion\/climate-change-meatless-meat.html\">Let\u2019s Launch a Moonshot for Meatless Meat<\/a>.\u201d Surprisingly, Klein\u2019s vision falls short of the moon, asserting that a small shift using the exploitative system we currently have will be enough. He has a false assumption about the cause of the problem: that people will always want to eat meat. So his answer is deceptively simple: \u201cAll we have to do is replace the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I understand the appeal of meatless meat. As a vegan myself, I appreciate having options. There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with imitation patties or sausages. But often, solutions touted as cure-alls have painful unintended consequences. Can alternative meats alone get us to the just and sustainable food system we need?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Meatless-meat-1024x512.webp\" alt=\"Illustration of an alternating pattern of sketched hamburgers and astronauts\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Meatless-meat-1024x512.webp 1024w, https:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Meatless-meat-300x150.webp 300w, https:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Meatless-meat-768x384.webp 768w, https:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Meatless-meat.webp 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem with the food system isn\u2019t that there are too many people who want to eat meat \u2014 <strong>it\u2019s that corporations have so much unchecked power that they can produce meat however they want while harming whoever they want<\/strong>. Industrial production practices come at the expense of workers, the environment, neighboring communities, farmers themselves, and animals. In other words, the problem isn\u2019t with consumers or what they\u2019re consuming, but with the industry and how it\u2019s producing food. As long as a few corporations dominate the food system, practices will continue to be just as extractive and exploitative as they are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the corporations looking to dominate plant-based meats are companies we already know: agribusiness giants like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/6\/13\/18677396\/tyson-foods-alternative-fake-meat-business-pea-protein-chicken-nugget\">Tyson Foods<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/brazils-jbs-buy-plant-based-meat-company-vivera-341-mln-euros-filing-2021-04-19\/\">JBS<\/a> have been entering the plant-based meat space as Impossible and Beyond have become household names. These companies purposely operate in low-income and communities of color that they can generally pollute without consequence. They pay poverty wages, intimidate immigrant workers, allow sexual misconduct to run rampant, and force employees to come in even when they are sick \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/24\/business\/economy\/coronavirus-smithfield-meat.html?searchResultPosition=1\">everyday practices that led to some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks our country saw in 2020<\/a>. Why should we assume they would operate any differently to produce fake meat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know what will likely happen when these kinds of companies produce meat alternatives. They will source the cheapest and most readily available ingredients (cheap precisely because they rely on exploitative practices). Soybeans, wheat, and peas will come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/resources\/hidden-costs-industrial-agriculture\">destructive monocultures, which pollute neighboring communities and waterways with fertilizer and pesticides<\/a>. And smaller and independent farmers who are more likely to use ecological farming practices will be excluded from this market, increasing the power of Big Ag.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Klein is right that in light of President Biden\u2019s climate bill, solutions to industrial animal agriculture <em>must <\/em>be given priority to meet the reduction goals set by the administration. He is also right to say that federal subsidies for meat should be redistributed away from the existing industrial animal agriculture sector and towards more sustainable food producers. This can include plant-based meats, but must not exclude independent farmers. Alternative meats are one tool in the toolbox for creating a better food system \u2014 but won\u2019t create the change we need if they come at the expense of our other goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is especially true if fake meat isn\u2019t displacing meat at all, and if companies continue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/pkynky\/big-meat-is-selling-veggie-burgers-but-its-not-because-they-care-about-you\">expanding their meat operations<\/a> while their plant-based brands cloak their products in a green- and humane-washed veneer. This is already happening: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisedandrooted.com\/faqs\/\">now that Tyson has launched its plant-based \u201cnugget,\u201d the company happily brands itself as green<\/a>. This adds to Tyson\u2019s power \u2014 and every other agribusiness entering the field \u2014 and removes the impetus for more systemic and just solutions.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this reveals another false assumption about who or what our adversaries are. At the Food Project, we see ourselves as connectors and aligners, continually seeking middle ground to create a stronger movement for a better food system. We have been able to build deep relationships with groups that may not seem aligned at first glance because we share an important understanding. We know that whether your focus is animal welfare, pollution, food sovereignty, or worker justice, the root cause of the problem is the same: consolidated corporate power and its license to operate without accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Food Project has caught up with our Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led sibling organizations, we have more and more understood that the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowacci.org\/farming-environment\/how-big-ag-reinforces-oppressive-systems\/\">system we fight is synonymous with white supremacy<\/a>. So our fight isn\u2019t necessarily with the Farm Bureau \u2014 and certainly not with fake meat \u2014 but the ways that white supremacy works through those institutions and is able to do more harm. Finding a middle ground would mean Klein and others like him recognizing the systems of oppression at work in their analysis, identifying solutions that instead empower people and communities, and acting in solidarity with the movement they now seek support from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without tackling the root of the problem and dismantling corporate control of the food system, meatless meats will perpetuate the same harms they supposedly prevent. Real solutions will heal deep wounds and center justice for those that have been most harmed by the industry \u2014 low-income, Black, brown, and rural communities. If we\u2019re going to shoot for the moon, we might as well stick the landing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few industries rival the devastation of industrial animal agriculture. It is a major driver of climate change, the leading cause of surface water pollution, and the basis of antibiotic resistance and food-borne illness. Its cruelty to workers and animals is unmatched and its impacts are disproportionately felt by Black and brown communities and lower income areas. This industry needs a cure that goes beyond addressing its symptoms, one that gets at the underlying disease: unchecked corporate control of the food system.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[75,76,42],"issue":[20,19,21],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-alt-meat","tag-corporate-consolidation","tag-racial-justice","issue-climate-environmental-protection","issue-consumer-rights","issue-farmers-rural-communities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why I\u2019m Not Always Over The Moon For Meatless Meat - Farmstand<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The problem with the food system isn\u2019t that there are too many people who want to eat meat \u2014 it\u2019s that corporations have so much unchecked power that they can produce meat however they want while harming whoever they want. 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