April 11, 2019
Is Burger King leading a new trend towards a meatless fast-food world? The giant restaurant chain is testing a vegetarian version of its trademark Whopper sandwich that uses plant-based Impossible Burger meat. If the trial run succeeds, the restaurant chain could double the footprint and popularity of the bloodless “bleeding” meat nationwide.
Figure 2 in the March 2013 issue of The Socionomist showed a century of meat consumption data and explained it in the context of human social behavior.
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