Whenever there's a food shortage, the only thing left at the supermarket is the fake meat. Clearly nobody wants it, it's fucking poison. Yet, every restaurant and fast food franchise from Taco Bell to Denny's insists on having it on the menu. Nobody's buying this. According to basic economic principles this shouldn't even exist. What kind of return are they getting on it? It must be a financial loss for the company. Yet here it is, advertised and pushed everywhere.

@Wormwood

Their revenues are stable while their net income (loss) is cratering.
This is because fake meat has always been a marketing venture and as time goes by they need to spend even more money on marketing to sell the same amount.
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@laurel @Wormwood They've been relying heavily on government subsidies.
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is it really poison?

@fluffy @laurel @Wormwood Is what?

>fake meat. Clearly nobody wants it, it's fucking poison.

@fluffy @laurel @p @Wormwood it's super crazy processed, the amount of chemicals and engineering that goes into it in order to get the same meat texture and flavour