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I understand why vegans want meat-free foods, and I support them in that. As a meat-lover, I'm happy to admit that there are some amazing vegetable-only dishes.

I understand why vegans want meat-free foods, and I support them in that. As a meat-lover, I'm happy to admit that there are some amazing vegetable-only dishes. I've absolutely no idea why they do their very best to pass their stuff off as meat. I've seen things in the sandwich fridge in supermarkets with massive high-contrast letters saying CHICKEN and then in a tiny, barely legible yellow on light background "plant-based" above it. This kind of nonsense doesn't help vegetarians find the non-meat options available to them, and it just annoys people who want an actual chicken sandwich and they bite into it and find something else. Some people love the idea of plant-based food, others don't. Let them make an informed decision, don't let companies rely on trickery to sell stuff. Of course, there's the aspect to this that it's a lot cheaper to make something out of chickpeas than meat, so they're probably relying on people buying it in error and paying what they think is a fair price for a meat sandwich rather than realising it's an over-inflated price for what the food actually is.

ravenstine 3y ago
I don't find it confusing. Plenty of vegans are vegan because of ethics but still miss the taste of meat, so substitutes make perfect sense. It also makes sense from a recruiting standpoint. There's a cultish aspect to veganism, which is why vegans are notorious for announcing that they are vegan, and they need new members to join their religion in order to maintain their sense of superiority. Their thought is that if meat eaters can be satisfied by fake plant-based meat that they might give up eating meat and become vegan.
dirtyid 3y ago
They want to convert more meat eaters, or at least get larger addressable markets to to try. Which is fine by me. Instead of meat industry bitching and legistlating vegetarian products co-opting meaty language, IMO meat products should just slap on MEAT BASED in big letters.

ravenstine 3y ago

I don't find it confusing. Plenty of vegans are vegan because of ethics but still miss the taste of meat, so substitutes make perfect sense. It also makes sense from a recruiting standpoint. There's a cultish aspect to veganism, which is why vegans are notorious for announcing that they are vegan, and they need new members to join their religion in order to maintain their sense of superiority. Their thought is that if meat eaters can be satisfied by fake plant-based meat that they might give up eating meat and become vegan.

dirtyid 3y ago

They want to convert more meat eaters, or at least get larger addressable markets to to try. Which is fine by me. Instead of meat industry bitching and legistlating vegetarian products co-opting meaty language, IMO meat products should just slap on MEAT BASED in big letters.