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I dont understand the obsession with reproducing meat out of plants. There are many plant based meals that are excellent without pretending to be bacon or steak

I dont understand the obsession with reproducing meat out of plants. There are many plant based meals that are excellent without pretending to be bacon or steak or burgers. There is not, and should not be an industry trying to making pasta-based lettuce or potato-based lemons.

ranguna 4y ago
I love the taste of plant based meat, it's something that I was never able to emulate myself.
rgmerk 4y ago
Because meat (particularly beef and lamb) is environmentally disastrous and ethically problematic, but a majority of people really like the taste and wouldn’t want to give it up. Hence the desire to make a product that tastes like meat but is less environmentally damaging and doesn’t have the same ethical concerns. You may not like the implications (as someone who really enjoys meat, I don’t) but the environmental arguments against red meat are pretty compelling.
Nursie 4y ago
> I dont understand the obsession with reproducing meat out of plants. I don't understand why someone has to bring this up every. single. time. People like meat. Those same people may want to become vegetarian for ethical reasons. They still like meat though. Oh look, a product that can fit in that "I like meat" slot without killing animals. Sounds tasty. What else is there to understand?
- shapefrog 4y ago
  > ethical reasons I like the consequence of murder; the texture, the taste, the blood, the everything ... but not the bit where something actually dies.
  - Nursie 4y ago
    Yup. Not sure it's that hard to understand.
mathieuh 4y ago
I think that is the eventual evolution of someone who becomes vegan or vegetarian. But those fake meat products definitely help someone who's been eating meat their whole life and never really had to think about how you prepare a meal that where vegetables are the centrepiece. I still buy some frozen whatever-the-fuck that I can just whack in the air fryer and have ready in 10 minutes when I can't be bothered cooking, but now that I've been vegan for like eight months most of my diet is whole vegetables and grains, and if I've been out cycling that day I'll have some tofu or beans for protein. The fake meat definitely helped me ease into it, and if I'm eating with my meat-eating mother and it's her turn to cook then it's easy to have something she doesn't have to think about.
saurik 4y ago
How about reproducing plants out of meat? Can there be an industry trying to make meat-based carrots? ;P https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8wmx/arbys-has-invented-a-carrot-made-of-meat-and-it-smells-like-insecurity https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8wmx/arbys-has-invented-a-...

ranguna 4y ago

I love the taste of plant based meat, it's something that I was never able to emulate myself.

rgmerk 4y ago

Because meat (particularly beef and lamb) is environmentally disastrous and ethically problematic, but a majority of people really like the taste and wouldn’t want to give it up. Hence the desire to make a product that tastes like meat but is less environmentally damaging and doesn’t have the same ethical concerns. You may not like the implications (as someone who really enjoys meat, I don’t) but the environmental arguments against red meat are pretty compelling.

Nursie 4y ago

> I dont understand the obsession with reproducing meat out of plants. I don't understand why someone has to bring this up every. single. time. People like meat. Those same people may want to become vegetarian for ethical reasons. They still like meat though. Oh look, a product that can fit in that "I like meat" slot without killing animals. Sounds tasty. What else is there to understand?

shapefrog 4y ago
> ethical reasons I like the consequence of murder; the texture, the taste, the blood, the everything ... but not the bit where something actually dies.
- Nursie 4y ago
  Yup. Not sure it's that hard to understand.

mathieuh 4y ago

I think that is the eventual evolution of someone who becomes vegan or vegetarian. But those fake meat products definitely help someone who's been eating meat their whole life and never really had to think about how you prepare a meal that where vegetables are the centrepiece. I still buy some frozen whatever-the-fuck that I can just whack in the air fryer and have ready in 10 minutes when I can't be bothered cooking, but now that I've been vegan for like eight months most of my diet is whole vegetables and grains, and if I've been out cycling that day I'll have some tofu or beans for protein. The fake meat definitely helped me ease into it, and if I'm eating with my meat-eating mother and it's her turn to cook then it's easy to have something she doesn't have to think about.

saurik 4y ago

How about reproducing plants out of meat? Can there be an industry trying to make meat-based carrots? ;P https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8wmx/arbys-has-invented-a-carrot-made-of-meat-and-it-smells-like-insecurity https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8wmx/arbys-has-invented-a-...