Planted (tasty vegan meats from Switzerland)
Planted is a European brand (from Switzerland) of foods, widely sold in UK grocery stores. This one is setting the standard for ethics, sustainability and taste of faux meats. 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).
Avoid sausages for young children and choking hazards (for older children, slice lengthwise and lengthwise again into strips). Keep faux meats away from pets, due to onion, garlic and salt.
Also don’t give leftovers to garden birds or wildfowl ((salt is toxic, and fat can smear on feathers, affecting waterproofing and insulation).
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside doesn’t recycle.
The range includes:
- Steaks and burgers
- Chicken schnitzel and nuggets
- ‘Pulled pork’ and Bratwurst sausages
- Kebabs and ‘vegan duck’
Why choose plant-based meat alternatives?
England is a country of around 67 million people. This means that although most people eat meat (though the amount of people who don’t is growing rapidly), there is simply not enough land for everyone to eat free-range meat, from animals that graze outside and have access to cosy indoors barns,
This means that most meats sold in England are either raised in factory farms here, or imported (for instance, most factory-farmed Danish bacon is imported to the UK for supermarkets).
So it’s not ‘harming traditional farmers’ to try faux meats, because people who eat meat will support them anyway by eating free-range meat. But for everyone else, then it’s good to discover some good vegan alternatives. And these are not just animal-kind, but cholesterol-free and not linked to cancers, like many processed meats (bacon is an obvious example, due to nitrates produced when cooked).
