On a busy
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busy:
ajetreada
street in Los Feliz, Los Angeles is a restaurant called Honeybee
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honeybee:
abeja de la miel
Burger. Inside, the chef flips
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to flip:
dar la vuelta
burgers on the grill and serves them up to hungry clients. What distinguishes Honeybee from almost every other burger restaurant is that it doesn’t serve beef
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beef:
carne de ternera
burgers, chicken burgers or any burgers made from meat. Instead, it produces the two varieties of meatless
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meatless:
sin carne
burgers that have exploded in popularity in recent years: the Beyond
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beyond:
más allá
Burger and the Impossible Burger. These are so in demand
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are so in demand:
hay tanta demanda
that they have made their way
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to make their way:
llegar hasta
onto the menus of thousands of restaurants, including those of traditional burger chains
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chains:
cadenas
Burger King and Carl’s Jr.
revolutionary burgers The makers
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makers:
productores
of both burgers, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, were founded in California some ten years ago and are today valued at $11.7 billion and $2 billion, respectively. They specialise in making plant-based meat substitutes but their star product is their burger, which is sold at restaurants and grocery stores
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grocery stores:
supermercados
in the US and in a growing number of other countries around the world. Their founders hope that their products will replace
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to replace:
sustituir
meat products on a global scale, eventually
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eventually:
finalmente
making meat obsolete.
plant-based proteins Unlike
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unlike:
al contrario
meatless burgers of the past, the Beyond Burger, made primarily from pea
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pea:
guisante
protein, and the Impossible Burger, made primarily from soy
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soy:
soja
, are designed to replicate beef burgers in taste
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taste:
sabor
and texture in order to appeal
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to appeal:
atraer
not only to vegetarians and vegans but also to meat-eaters. One of their biggest selling points is that they make a much smaller environmental impact than beef burgers, and of course they don’t harm animals.