Making hamburgers healthy: plant-based meat and the rhetorical (re)constructions of food through science
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prompted by the increasingly promoted “plant-based” burgers available on the market, this paper interrogates their epistemological and ontological implications, and how these food products problematize the discursive category of “meat.” Our analysis focuses on the promotional rhetoric of the “plant-based” meat company Beyond Meat; specifically, the Beyond Burger. Using the Beyond Burger, we address the scientific, technological, and socio-cultural bases upon which the concept of food functionality is rhetorically constituted and negotiated by public health officials, policy makers, and scientists. Ultimately, we argue that the Beyond Burger and other plant-based meats disrupt the established categorical boundaries of food.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it