Why aren't mussels way more popular? They're basically cell cultured meat but early. Even environmentalist-types don't seem to care.
>cheap
>protein/200kcal on par with chicken leg or steak
>rich in basically every nutrient
>good source of omega 3
>weirdly good source of taurine
>grows on ropes
>moules frites
>environmental impact comparable to tofu
>plausibly not sentient/capable of suffering
Humans evolved to eat real meat and nothing else. Stop it with this shit propaganda trying to convince men to frick up their test levels even more with fake food like muh grains muh veggies and muh mussels
>real meat and nothing else
What a fricking boring existence
>It has to be fun or I won't do it, even if it is the right thing to do
What a child
Do you think seasoning your food is bad? A cup of coffee or tea will kill your gains? Get real.
>Yeah bro, just poison yourself so you can enjoy muh taste and my tea
I would tell you to man up, but it's already too late
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heavy metals and paralytic shellfish poisons
Doesn't seem to be a major issue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700650/
But still, I think this is why I mentioned that it's comparable to cell cultured meat. We can farm them and control the growth medium. Eliminating these issues.
Bivalves are a very early human food, it is real meat. We find mountains of shellfish remains dating back 7000 years, Neanderthals were eating mussels 150000 years ago.
They are slimy and gross anon.
Cheap??? Where??
They taste like shit
I hate oysters too
>Expensive as frick
French gay here I love mussels but let's be realistic you wouldn't bulk or get your protein solely for that. It's long to cook (if you want it to taste well) and you'd need humongous quantities
Stopped reading there. This is 100% false in such a way that is so obvious and necessary I can only conclude you are some combination of bot, troony, moron, or Black person.
Good day.
It's relative. As a source of lean protein, nutrients and omega 3s, they much cheaper than anything else that isn't either a plant, or suffering immensely under overcrowded, unsanitary, unstimulating conditions.
Battery chickens are cheap as hell, and even have relatively low emissions and resource requirements, but you compromise a lot in producing them. So compared to free range organic chicken, grass fed beef, or anything nutritionally comparable, it's damn cheap.
deenz?
Brisling sardines are cheap because they're caught by trawling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling trawling is a pretty awful practice with big impacts on marine ecosystems, and whether or not brisling sardines are themselves sentient enough to suffer, the bycatch an ecosystem members are, and will include intelligent species like dolphins, porpoises, octopus etc.
They also tend to accumulate endocrine disrupting chemicals more AFAIK.
They are filter feeders so they accumulate heavy metals from environment.
>eating filter feeders
imagine you had a water filter on your tap but every couple years you dismantle it and eat the filter
Imagine you had some plants growing in your compost heap but every few months you harvested at ate them
Lmaooooo I guess you think eating liver and kidney is bad for you huh?
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Heavy metals and pollutants. You don't really want to eat these more than once a month or seasonally.
Id eat them more often if I could get them to cook the right way I've followed a bunch of different YouTube recipes but they always come out shitty compared to a restaurant. Chicken is impossible to frick up and cheaper.
Would recommend buying the supermarket precooked ones (depending on the standard of them in your country) and adding them to herby/garlicky pasta dishes. Not on par with fresh steamed mussels, but the other components really do compensate. It becomes similarly hard to frick up. Chilli, garlic, olive oil and herbs work really well with it, and the mussel flavour really permeates the rest of the dish.
>t. proud vegan oyster eater