14 Patents in Every Fake Bite of Impossible Burger

Impossible Foods' fake burgers are marketed as sustainable meat alternatives but in reality are ultraprocessed junk foods created in a laboratory.

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• Impossible Foods, which made headlines for its meatless burgers that “bleed” like real meat, holds 14 patents, with at least 100 more pending

• Impossible Foods should be called “Impossible Patents,” according to Seth Itzkan of Soil4Climate, who suggests fake meat products are destroying the environment by perpetuating a harmful reliance o…