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Bacon is so fantastically popular because of its taste. There must be something in human brains that says this taste is good. So why on earth would you avoid eating something that tasted as good and didn't conflict with your morals?
Sounds like some wear-it-on-your-sleeve "ascetic pretentiousness" borne from trying to intellectualize sensations. Just daft.
In other words why not - it tastes good and it isn't animal.
While I wouldn't say it quite that way, I substantially agree. We cannot escape the fact that our physiology has developed over hundreds of thousands of years in the context of eating animals. We can choose not to, surely, for whatever reasons, but that doesn't mean we're switching a switch turning off hundreds of thousands of years of psycho- and physiological development.
I'd take that cost estimate with a grain of salt. It is for dried dulse, when sold as a seasoning. You want fresh dulse to make this bacon substitute. Fresh dulse goes for about $30 a pound I believe. More expensive than bacon, for sure, but not $90 for 500g. I suspect that its price will come down a lot further if it were to be commercialized as a vegan bacon substitute. It's not like it is a hard to grow plant.
I'd take that cost estimate with a grain of salt. It is for dried dulse, when sold as a seasoning. You want fresh dulse to make this bacon substitute. Fresh dulse goes for about $30 a pound I believe. More expensive than bacon, for sure, but not $90 for 500g. I suspect that its price will come down a lot further if it were to be commercialized as a vegan bacon substitute. It's not like it is a hard to grow plant.
I hope so. The article states it grows fairly quickly and prolifically so not sure what is the reason behind the high prices. Either way, I'm looking forward to trying it.
I don't believe that any true Vegans would want to taste bacon.
That sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. I think it makes as much sense as saying that true Italians wouldn't want to taste spring rolls. What distinguishes someone as a vegan or vegetarian, in the manner you're speaking, is their concern about the animals, not some proprietary antipathy toward a certain kind of taste.
I lived a long time in Hawaii, and developed quite a taste for the green seafood that KTA sold. I found it here in Florida at the local Publix grocery store, but it is super expensive and loaded w/ salt.
Actually, the fake veggie bacon they have in the frozen food section tastes delicious, but I went to a gluten free diet, and you would not believe how many things have wheat in them! So no more fake bacon w/ my grits.
Where DO people get these ideas of what a vegan will or won't do? It's not a spiritual practice, it's a diet choice. If someone makes it into a religion, it's THEIR religion, not mine, and it's only what they decide to do. How someone else goes about it may be quite different. Wow, people are so judgmental.
buu, there are many native American tribes that were hunter gathers and ate a totally vegetarian diet. Those tribes that did not have access to good vegetarian food had to go to an animal diet to survive. If you lived in the northern hemispheres, it obviously made it impossible to rely on just vegetables. I'm sure this is true for other indigenous people the world over. Humans are omnivorous, we are not naturally carnivorous. Here's a link to just one of many, many scientific articles (admittedly published in a newspaper) than debunks the idea that humans are naturally carnivorous animals.
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