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I know that many vegetarians/vegans will not eat meat analogs (e.g. "fake meat") products, and I'm curious as to why that is. Personally, I enjoy them and willingly admit that using them makes it a lot easier for me to be a long-term vegetarian.
I have ate them from time to time. I really don't consider them a meat substitute rather a different form of food. However, they are highly processed and most do not use organic soy. So, I tend to eat them in moderation. I aim for most of my diet to consist of whole foods with a few processed foods here and there for variety.
For me, it is the sodium content. Many of these products are high in sodium just like other processed foods such as soups. It is an oxymoron of sorts. Most people eat four to five times more sodium each day than recommended. One vegi item I like and you can buy it bulk or prepackaged is TVP (Textured Vegi Protein). Once hydrated use it in place of ground beef - like when you want a taco. Sometimes I just want that hamburger feeling while eating chili or speghetti.
Ahhhh -- good reasons, both, and ones I hadn't considered. Does anyone have any, for lack of a better word, "moral" reasons for not eating meat analogs? Some people can get extremely testy about them, and I'm just curious as to why that is ... ???
A vegan eating fake meat is like a pacifist playing violent video games.
Yeah, both is equally fine with me.
The main reason why I only rarely eat "fake meats" is that it's basically junk food. Its' expensive, highly processed, artifically flavored, often high in sodium, fat yadda yadda yadda.
Another reason why I don't really like all this talk about meat substitutes is that it always focusses on the lack of meat, defining vegetarianism as a diet of deficit, deprivation, scarcity. Even vegetarians often do that by insisting that this or that substitute tastes totally like meat. In reality it never does and it doesn't have to.
To me vegetarianism is not only about a lack of meat, it's also a distinct style of cuisine that focusses on all the great things there are besides meat. And that's not only veggies. I.e. Indian cusine focusess mainly on seasoning, mixing spices, perfectioning aromas... and it's not that much different if you try to make a good marinara from scratch.
it's just great what you can explore once you overcome that boring old meat discussion.
Another reason why I don't really like all this talk about meat substitutes is that it always focusses on the lack of meat, defining vegetarianism as a diet of deficit, deprivation, scarcity. Even vegetarians often do that by insisting that this or that substitute tastes totally like meat. In reality it never does and it doesn't have to.
To me vegetarianism is not only about a lack of meat, it's also a distinct style of cuisine that focusses on all the great things there are besides meat. And that's not only veggies. I.e. Indian cusine focusess mainly on seasoning, mixing spices, perfectioning aromas... and it's not that much different if you try to make a good marinara from scratch.
it's just great what you can explore once you overcome that boring old meat discussion.
I don't eat most of them because they tend to be squishy, tasteless and overpriced on top of that. I saw where one poster on a different forum was warned not to eat them by a friend because they resemble meat too much, whatever THAT means.
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