Why do people who don't eat meat want to replicate the idea....?!
Answers: ...by buying vegetarian bacon/sausage or the like - it's a puzzle to me, why not have your vegetarian meat substitutes in the shape of an apple or a banana?
Sausages, (whether meat or veggie) are not actually in the shape of animals they are in the shape of courgettes. So it is actually the meat eater that is shaping their meat like vegetables rather than the other way round.
And burgers, meat or veggie, are shaped to fit easily into a bun. There's nothing 'meat' about the shape of a burger.
Ironic really.
Lol! Never thought of this! I prefer the real thing myself, but it does seem odd!
lol because they really do want to eat meat their morals just wont let them so they can always pretend lol guilt free meat lol.
thats right keep on having a dig at the veg heads you are just afraid of things that you will never understand
because many grew up eating the real meat items, and want to sub something similar that looks and tastes like their childhood, but without all the animal cruelty.
my missus is a vegy - she hates the idea of veg sausages and bacon etc.
she hates the texture and the killing of meat.
me-well i love a rare stake!!
Good point. They like to eat "meat substitutes." If they find meat repulsive, they should avoid anything that reminds them of it.
some vegetarians are vegetarian for ethical reasons but still miss the taste. Some buy it because mock meats are high in protein and have half the fat of real meat.
Why is that because your vegan/veggie its assumed you don't like the taste of meat?
Generally its not the taste that make people not eat meat, its the fact, that an animal has been killed.
edit: thought it would be fun to eat a Pineapple shapped Quorn Chicken
Well before i became a vegetarian i loved the taste of meat but decided to sacrifce eating an animal on moral grounds
so i eat the substitute stuff as it makes me miss the taste of meat less
and i suppose thats the same for all veges that use to eat meat.
Firstly, I would say these "Faux' meat products are designed by non-vegetarians. Vegetarians don't actually require their proteins to look anything like meat! Makes it easier to slip 'soy bacon' into a BLT for some carnivore though, so I would suggest eating meat makes you stupid and gullible.
The sausage shape has been around for years, and was often not made of meat anyway. Some of these early traditional 'dumplings' or 'sausages' were called faggots, eg: Herb and Potato ******. but I don't see the marketing boffins adopting a name like that in a hurry, so soy or lentil 'sausage' it will continue to be...
PS: I do shape my 'nut cutlets' in the shape of burger patties but we call them 'frying saucers'.. What's in a name, ay?
why does it matter?
It's not a 'replica' it's simply more a substitute, but instead of eating cholesteral filled flesh they choose soy.
it's their own chose of diet.
Maybe it's because thats simply what in the grocery store?
Excuse me if I am wrong but there are no 'fruit shaped fake meats'
let's try to use a little thing called logic here people.
And eating soy sausage doesn't make it a replica of meat.
It's soy and there is no soy in meat.
I never did like that idea.I don't like the taste or the texture...
I do buy veggiee patties and veggi corn dogs, but I don't want anything to taste like meat. I just get tired of peanut butter sandwiches.
I'm not a vegetarian - but i love veggie burgers, and the corndogs (don't remember the name). I just like the way they taste, and they are good for you. I think a lot of those products are aimed at flexitarians, or people who want to add soy to their diet - or people who want to be able to cook for a vegitarian....
Are vegitarians the only ones who can eat non-meat food?
Many veg*ans grew up eating meat. I stopped eating animal flesh because because my body stopped being able to handle it and one day I was just disgusted by the chickens' wings I was eating and decided to go veg.
However, I like different flavors and textures, and analogues offer variety in my diet. It's also a mainstreaming factor--it makes vegetarianism less threatening by assuring people they can have the taste and texture without the cruelty, hormones, antibiotics, cholesterol, and saturated fat. Oh, yeah, and without the risk of E. coli and salmonella.
What do you care anyway if someone eats a veggie burger or veggie sausage? If you don't like them, don't eat them, but I'm going to enjoy my veggie chix cutlets, thankyouverymuch.
That's a good question and as a true vegan I don't understand it either.
But I think I have the answer. First, a true vegan would never buy that junk because it isn't natural. Second, if you are a true vegan you want to be a faithful witness to the horrors of animal cruelty and you wouldn't want ANYONE to even THINK you are eating meat. What you have on here are a bunch of fake vegans and fake vegetarians afraid of practicing the spiritual disciplines of veganism..
That is sort of puzzler now that I think about it. I don't buy it though. I'm in this game to win it(I mean I'm a vegetarian and want to stay that way).
i am a vegetarian and have been for 4 years the only fake meat i will eat is chickenpatties for protien it disgusts me to even think of eating bacon or sausage links just to look at it and know that someone really is eating an animal i dont know it is somehting that you have to trick your mind into
Dear bloodshotbiz,
The term "vegetarianism / veganism" is often misunderstood.
There are 3 level of evolution in modern vegetarians.
*Level 1 – Physical*
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BEGINNERS; Concerning 5 senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, body conscious). More concern about animal as "bloody" and "filthy", health issue, disgusting smell and taste, “instincto”, RELIGIOUS ideology
Level 2 - Soul (Emotion)
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INTERMEDIATE. Concerning "animal rights", love, care, famine, poverty, hunger, starvation, pain, suffering, cry, scream, murder.
Level 3 - Mind (Intellectual)
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MOST CRUTIALLY, World issue, hunger, starvation, resources, pollution, meat-politics, freakonomics, domination by the strong ones, poverty, criminology, psychopath.
Peoples’ diet choice has direct and indirect vagueness with others, like commodity price leverage, govt allocate larger portion of people's tax money to subsidies and compensation to meat industries, devastation of rain forest and water resources, pollution, control, treatment and research on meat-borne indigenous diseases (UK is spending almost 3 billions each year), contamination and eradication of diseased livestock, etc. In 2006 alone the world had spent abt USD6billion for eradication of poultries infected by Avian Flu (and there are many more!). These are YOUR MONEY as well.
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Therefore, you need to assess the "the level of need" of a person. It's not easy to raise a kid or convince adults to vegetarianism. I don't think it is wrong for the level 1 vegetarians to start-up with veggie bacon (in fact I was started this way, but later become a vegan, and now more to raw vegan).
Vegetarianism never stop at eating habit alone, my dear bloodshotbiz !
Bacon- probably just for traditions sake
Sausages- well its a convenient shape - thats why its use dfor meat in the first place
The convenient shape applies to just about ALL of the Vegetarian "imitation" products.
People often buy them when they've only just become a veggie to ween themselves off meat. Also the companies who make the food need to make it appeal to a wide variety of people so marketing something as being modelled on meat but not being meat itself will make it more appealing to people who eat meat.
Ah yes... and don't forget those amusing "VEGGIE" burgers.