$BYND

I ate synthetic / fake / substitute or whatever meat before (not from Beyond Meat).
It made me very sick.
I wonder what chemicals, additive , modifiers they add to the meat to make it taste
and look like meat.

Walks like a duck?
 
I tried BYND burger a few weeks ago from A&W. It tastes fine but I would never order it again, I just wanted to see what all the hype was about. This one is extra popular because its a soy free product. I found it strange that this fake vegetarian burger cost exactly the same as a real burger. Makes you wonder what this whole veganism fad is really about..... (hint: making money off stupid people).
 
I see major competition coming into this market, everyone is seeing the demand and many top meat producers will be all over this as well as probably startups that we haven't heard of yet being started by the avocado toast hipsters!!!
 
I ate synthetic / fake / substitute or whatever meat before (not from Beyond Meat).
It made me very sick.
I wonder what chemicals, additive , modifiers they add to the meat to make it taste
and look like meat.

Although it seems like a plant-based burger should have a "cleaner" ingredients label, it's actually more complicated. An animal meat burger has one ingredient: beef. A Beyond Meat burger, on the other hand, has 18 ingredients: water, pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, cocoa butter, mung bean protein, methylcellulose, potato starch, apple extract, salt, potassium chloride, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, sunflower lecithin, pomegranate fruit powder, beet juice extract. And don't forget there's more to a burger than just the protein.

Carl's Jr. bills its Beyond Famous Star Burger -- featuring a meatless Beyond Burger -- as a "healthier option," but once you add a bun, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, pickles, onions, and special sauce, you're looking at a sandwich with 710 calories, 40 grams of fat (no saturated or trans fat, though), 1,550 milligrams of sodium, and 12 grams of sugars. A McDonald's Big Mac nutrition label is slimmer than that with 540 calories, 28 grams of fat (10 grams saturated and 1 gram trans), 940 milligrams of sodium, and 9 grams of sugars. On the carb front, the Carl's Jr. burger has 61 grams while the Big Mac has 46. In a cholesterol matchup, the Carl's Jr. sandwich has 30 milligrams while the McDonald's sandwich has 80.

While a foodborne illness outbreak can affect any restaurant or food company, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found produce was more than twice as likely to contribute to an illness or death as meat or poultry. Beyond Meat has wisely warned in its SEC filings that such contamination is a possibility and would have an adverse material effect on its business.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/06/13/6-reasons-investors-should-be-leery-of-beyond-meat.aspx
 
anyone remember KKD?

beyond meat my ass lol... it's basically tofu!
Exactly. at first I thought this beyond meat was actually lab grown cloned meat, figured they were long ways out from FDA approval, let alone an IPO. Didn't realize it was just soy meat substitute which we've had for decades. The only thing that makes sense for this stock is moving volume, and it seems like they've struck deals with fast food chains.

But that doesn't MATTER to the masses. It tastes like meat but is not real meat. Who in that age group cares what it is? They are avocado toast kids, who will pay premiums for the fake stuff. Good stock to get into IMHO. It will not tank aside from a possible IPO peak orgasm drop. The company is going to make a LOT of money if they keep their costs under control, and management in check.
This was second thought, just a fad aiming for the holier than thous. Fad stocks are tricky though. Where's GoPro?

It reminds me a lot of Tilray. TLRY ran all the way up to $300 in the first two months following its IPO. Over the past year its slowly faded back down below $50. BYND ran all the way up to $200 before pulling back to $150. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it fade back to $100 over the next few months.

Who knows for sure though. It will be interesting to watch.
My 3rd thought. Seems like there's some genius marketing going on. After all, we've had coffee for a long ass time before Starbucks
 
since this is an IPO and except the underwriters and their tight connections, very few know what is up lol.... so a pump a dump serves 2 purposes... 1 is the profit from the scam itself... the 2nd is actually a marketing campaign as a hot stock attracts lots of attention then people find out about the product then want to try...
 
I ate synthetic / fake / substitute or whatever meat before (not from Beyond Meat).
It made me very sick.
I wonder what chemicals, additive , modifiers they add to the meat to make it taste
and look like meat.
.... they add to the meat to make it taste and look like meat.
 
So as America's life expectancy topped out and has declined relatively speaking in comparison to other developed countries, while eating a higher degree of meat based protein, we of course should continue doing exactly that? ROFLMAO

And no I am not a vegan. Just someone who has learned over a lifetime (that I hope continues decades more) to choose what I eat, and just as important, how much I eat ... carefully.

BTW: the bun is just as unhealthy as the burger, regardless of whether burger is the vegan or meat variety.
 
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