Yeast (or bacteria) making proteins such as insulin or the heme protein (found in hemoglobin, bacteria also does a similar thing with nitrogen fixing plants) is cool. After all this is very similar to yeast taking sugar and making beer. Having yeast making the proteins to make a plant based burger taste as almost as good as the real thing (this is what Impossible Burger does) is a good thing.
A similar process with Maggots making hotdogs is not the same thing.
Yeast is good, maggots is bad!
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Sidenote in the last 24 hours Beyond Meat had its IPO on the nasdaq stock market (ticker symbol BYND). Trading started Wednesday. The initial IPO price was $25 and then it rose to $45 (at closing) and news stories started making a big deal that this was a big change and it was underpriced with its IPO. At the time of writting the stock price for BYND is $62.80 and for a brief second the high of the stock was $72.95
I hoped no employees at Beyond Meat with stock options sold their stock during the first day for that is a big deal selling at $25 vs $62.80. If some employee did I hoped they are given some nice vodka to dull their pain.
