Planted (tasty vegan meats from Switzerland)
Planted is one of the newer vegan meat companies, now sold widely in UK supermarkets and grocery stores. Founded in Switzerland, this is setting the standard for ethics and sustainability, and taste!
Avoid sausages for young children and swallowing difficulties. Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (don’t feed leftovers to pets, garden birds and wildfowl – due to salt, onion, garlic, spices, mushrooms etc).
Most councils now recycle soft plastic packaging. If not, pop it in the supermarket plastic packaging bin, next time you’re passing.
Sold throughout Europe, the range includes:
- Steaks and burgers
- Chicken schnitzel and nuggets
- ‘Pulled pork’ and Bratwurst sausages
- Kebabs and ‘vegan duck’
The brand’s ambassador is meat-loving wrestler Christian Stucki. A passionate amateur chef, he has made this brand uber-popular (the chicken is even now sold in Swiss Subway restaurants). He says their plant-based steaks blew him away, and the natural ingredients and nutrition make it a great swap.
Why Choose Vegan Meats?
Often people are criticised for choosing vegan meats, saying they are ‘not natural’ and we should ‘support our farmers’. In fact, England has 60 million meat so we don’t have enough free-range land to eat meat in its present quantities, without resorting to horrible factory farms.
So if you eat meat, choose free-range (and pay a little more). And some of the time, choose vegan meats (these are fine if made without palm oil, and you recycle the packaging). No cholesterol too!
