Comment regarding why vegetarians feel the need to simulate meat.?!
Comment regarding why vegetarians feel the need to simulate meat.?
I think it could be that they were bought up on meat. I saw my father kill a rabbit when I was small for stew and witnessed the yearly pig "hung "after slaughter.I did all to avoid eating meat as a child. However credit to those who find they are having to deny meat in the interest of defenceless animals. Could someone make veg look and taste like meat then all creatures could live. How wonderfull would that be ? ?
Answers:
hi Janet
most product like soya protein and korn are giveen a look and name of pieces of meat (like cutlets.sausage burger...).
to give a reverence to meat eaters and open the vegetarian market .
personally I'm ok with veg burger or veg sausages as I's not exactly a replica of animal body parts.
But I could not eat mock prawns or mock duck from chineses shops.
Joel
I think it's undeniably because people were brought up as meat eaters before becoming vegetarian because I've known kids brought up from birth as veggie and they often don't like the meat-tasting veggie products. There is, of course, the point that some people have different tastes and some veggie from birth do like the meat free products because it is a unique taste and texture. However, there is the whole psychology of meat eating to consider as well and some people would never want to eat meat-free, taste identical products no matter how good or wholesome or ethical they were because they have this whole hunter, superior species, top of the food chain thing going on in their heads and couldn't care less if it adds to the destruction of the planet and suffering and pain. It's that which needs to be addressed, not just the search for identical taste.
I wasn't raised on meat. But I like the variety of soy-chicken, vege-sausages, vege-mince, gluten-duck, soy-bacon-rashes... whatever, it's all extending my menu and I like it.
I have some vegetarian friends who are disgusted by the meat-substitute products which I find bemusing. Maybe it's because they were raised on meat and it reminds them of the real thing too much. I don't care - just as long as an animal wasn't tortured for it, then I'll eat it with sauce.
Meat eaters who want to try the meat-substitute products should try not comparing it to meat and just consider it all decent food in its own right even if it's an acquired taste. It's not meant to taste just like meat - it's just meant to be tasty.
The Chinese have been inventing these foods and have been eating them for hundreds, or maybe thousands, of years so it's nothing new.
Try this recipe and you be the judge to see if it tastes like meat or not!
Take 16oz canned Pumpkin add wheat germ and oatmeal plus some light soya sauce mix together and use like you would use hamburger
except that if you fry it you'll have to fry it in oil.
If you make balls for spagetti they'll taste better if dipped in oil and then cook with the spagetti!
In my opinion it doesn't taste like meat but is darn close! I like it better than meat! I never really cared for meat. I had to eat meat while growing up my parents made me do so!
My body is useto meat and seems appropiate
to give it something that looks like and is near to
the taste of meat! I don't like the idea of eating real meat every since I been in an abbatoir. However I became a vegetarian before that do to
the high cost of meat! If somethings too costly I find a way to do without!
there are some products like quorn,tofo ect..
animals are my life and i will never eat them i would rather be killed myself!
Because some people don't eat meat because they think its wrong to kill animals for food. But that doesn't mean they don't like the taste.
Actually, my mum, who isn't vegetarian, prefers some of my quorn stuff.
Some people don't like it, some people will never see the point in it.