Non-meat eaters are behind skeumorphic meat alternatives for the same reason car detractors are generally in favour of electric cars. Moving people away from t

Non-meat eaters are behind skeumorphic meat alternatives for the same reason car detractors are generally in favour of electric cars. Moving people away from the old sources weakens the entrenched power of those who benefit from the old way (factory farms and fossil fuel companies, respectively), massively helping with one first-order problem (animal cruelty and carbon emissions, respectively) and opening the way towards further improvements that would have been blockaded by those entrenched powers.