Meat substitutes are, first and foremost, "processed food". They resemble meat secondarily. We are advised to avoid "processed food" and prefer real food, comm

Meat substitutes are, first and foremost, "processed food". They resemble meat secondarily. We are advised to avoid "processed food" and prefer real food, commonly defined for convenience as containing no more than five ingredients. So meat substitutes are right out, at least as a habit. A disastrously large fraction of descendants of subjects of England (incl. US, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan) suffer from "processed food disease", also "metabolic disorder" or "fatty liver disease". Many are not obese. They can be cured with remarkable ease by dietary means, but generally are not.