Like most people, I was surprised and impressed with the Beyond Meat burger at A&W.
You can swap out beef for veggie in ANY of their burgers.
This burger is pretty much the only thing that would motivate me to dine at A&W rather than competitors I like more — including Tim Horton’s.
A&W Beyond Meat Burger Review: 5 Taste-Testers Reveal Their Ratings
#WIN
I’d order this again.
It’s no worse than the usual lousy beef version. But more expensive.
Beyond Meat has brought its burgers to more than 1,000 Carl’s Jr. locations in the US, marking its Beyond’s largest restaurant deal to date. Order a $6.29 Beyond Famous Star and you can eat a vegetarian (sorry vegans, there’s American cheese) burg that tastes much like its conventional beef counterparts …
#FAIL
I was hoping the new vegetarian alternative would be just as tasty as the dead animal version.
Sadly, I don’t like it as much as regular mystery sausage.
AND it’s more expensive. AND it’s still: Calories 540, Fat 33g.
Count me out.
My first and last visit to Del Taco. Service was way too slow.
But as tacos go, their vegetarian version with Beyond Meat tasted good to me.
I’m definitely going to eat less beef in future. Cows are TERRIBLE for the environment.
Ranchers on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) property have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. …
Ranchers leasing BLM land cost taxpayers an estimated $500 million a year (and probably much more—some say a billion dollars).
According to Stephen Nash’s Grand Canyon for Sale, about 15,000 ranchers receive a $33,000 from the federal government annually.
This windfall of this bill comes in the form of radically reduced leasing fees (that some ranchers, such as Cliven Bundy, refuse to pay altogether). The cost of grazing cattle on privately owned land in the West is $21.60. BLM ranchers pay $1.41 per animal unit month (AUM), the amount of monthly forage eaten by a cow and her calf. In essence, ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. …
These subsidies apply to only 2.7 percent of livestock producers in the United States. Six percent of beneficiaries get 66 percent of the proceeds. So, rather than these subsidies leading to cheaper meat (which might, depending on one’s economic philosophy, justify them), the program tends to benefit corporate ranchers with names such as Koch, Walmart, and Hilton. …
https://www.amazon.com/Welfare-Ranching-Subsidized-Destruction-American/dp/1559639423
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West tells the story of a vast region, sparsely populated by people but tragically battered by an activity many of us have mistakenly believed is benign.
In fact, the production of livestock is incompatible with the ecological health of much of the lands in the West.
Aridity is chief among the factors limiting compatible uses of western landscapes. Over decades, the placement of exotic, water-hogging, ill-adapted livestock on western lands has changed diverse native plant communities …
Feb 1, 2019 – Queulat National Park to wild camp (74km)
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In bright sunshine I rode out of Queulat National Park.
And immediately had problems. ☹️
No cyclist likes to see something like this coming up ahead.
That means I’d be pushing my bike up a long hill.
But the scenery over these next two days was the best so far.
When taking photos I’m tempted to crop out the road.
Quite quickly it became obvious that my self-fixed pannier rack was not working. The fix I had installed was gone. ☹️
All I could do was replace the spacer with a sunscreen lid held with a zip tie.
To keep this one from breaking I decided to carry my hiking pack rather than try to strap it on the rack.
The great weather and gorgeous scenery kept me going, however.
I stopped at tiny Villa Amengual to use their library wifi.
And bought my first completo.
These are the super popular Chilean hotdogs. Mine actually turned out to be some kind of ground beef.
Little towns like this on the Carretera are all trying to become more attractive to the passing tourists. All are being improved in 2019.
Not to mention the spiffy statues!
As there were no long hikes en route today, I tried to put in some miles. The sooner I get to a bike shop for repair, the better.
About 7pm I happened upon a perfect campsite. Couldn’t resist.
A lovely night. No fly.
Fine dining with red wine.
Feb 2, 2019 – wild camp to Coyhaique (121km)
Next day dawned perfect again.
I decided to try to push though about 120km to Coyhaique in one day.
I took very few photos.
My biggest cycling day of the trip.
In the sun, I worried about heat emergency at times.
Though I drank 4 litres over the day it wasn’t nearly enough.
There was a huge hill to climb just before the city. End of day.
Exhausting.
Still, I was thrilled to actually make Coyhaique. The population is about 55,000 — a megalopolis compared with the other towns I’d seen all 4000 or less.
Too tired to eat I had, instead, chocolate milk, Diet Coke and Rum & Raisin ice-cream.
This is it. The end of the line for this cycling trip. I’ll be shipping back my rental bike from Coyhaique … but not until I do some days cycling around the city.
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