{"id":6240,"date":"2023-02-16T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:41:31","slug":"why-do-vegan-substitutes-look-like-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Vegan Substitutes Look Like Meat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the things that keep cropping up whenever vegan food crops up in social media, is why does it always resemble meat? Or “faux meat” as I call it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a vegetarian of over 30 years (and thus aligned with vegans; even if I’m not a “good vegan”), I very rarely eat faux meat; and when I do it’s out of curiosity. Not to see how closely they resemble meat, but to see if they were a viable choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

V* (meaning vegetarian and vegan) food doesn’t<\/em> need a meat substitute. There’s plenty of fine choices out there that don’t miss the rotting corpses a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So where does this belief come from? There’s three possible reasons why faux meat choices exist :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. New v*s miss certain meat dishes and seek faux meat to fill the gap in their diet. Fair enough.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Meat eaters who for one reason or another seek to swap out meat for a meat-free alternative. Fair enough.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Companies who market these products as being what v*s actually want. Whether they’re right or not kind of depends on how large groups 1&2 are. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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