I think that one Bourdain quote at the beginning is the only time he was ever wrong.
Oh is he otherwise good? I remember reading that passage early on (I think it might be in the first chapter of one of his books?) and I never looked at him again, just sounded like a chauvinist chud.
The only other thing I’ve read by him is the quote they keep at the top of the Kissinger Death Tontine site, which is admittedly based, but also kind of lib.
theyre too busy tearing each other apart right now with their own struggle session that is simultaneously about whether it is funny for mods to make people write poems about sexual assault to get unbanned and also about whether asking people not to compare animal agriculture to the holocaust makes you a vegetarian and a nazi
Seems like it would just be easier to flat out say “Im almost exclusively vegan but I do sometimes eat meat” than this self-aware “Oh I know this rationalization is questionable hohohoho” stuff.
Anyone who would get annoyed by it are already annoyed by the act itself I imagine.
what i took it to mean is that he taste tests his plant-based steaks against actual cow steaks for the purposes of ‘perfecting’ the taste
so its a more important point about the product itself, because that is exactly what beyond burgers do, and why theres a lot of controversy around them and why a lot of people dont consider beyond to be vegan (i tend to agree)
