Meat-Eating Agriculture Secretary Tries the Impossible Burger
- Perdue visited meat nemesis Impossible Foods on Thursday
- Alt-meat burger ‘very good,’ he says after California tasting
The Impossible Burger
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Sonny Perdue may be a champion of big agriculture and agribusinesses in all its forms, but even he isn’t immune to the lure of a vegan burger.
On Thursday, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture visited the Impossible Foods Inc. headquarters in Redwood City, California, where staff cooked up their signature alternative-meat burger for him. He said it tasted “very good,” and that it was a “good facsimile” of real beef.