Can you eat an Impossible Burger if you're giving up meat for Lent?
SalonUntil 1962, when the Second Vatican Council convened, Catholics refrained from eating meat on Fridays. But lately, more impressive alternatives or "approximeats" like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat taste increasingly like the real thing. As Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote in 2019, it's only been quite recently that "there's a real chance of these fake meats actually replicating the taste and feel of genuine, harvested-from-a-once-breathing-and-feeling creature meat." This is especially true following an article in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, "Lent in the age of the Impossible Burger: Do rules against eating meat on Fridays apply to fake meat?" He recommended Catholics reduce screen time and "offensive and harmful words, which the internet amplifies," an intention that is potentially more heart-changing than legalistically debating the virtues, or lack thereof, of faux meat.
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