About the vegetarian meat?

Question

If vegetarians don't eat meat then why is bean curd shaped as sausages, mince, chicken breast ...everthing that say meat but thats not of it

Answer 1

I'm vegetarian, i see what you mean, why do they make vegetarian meat? I personally dont eat that ****, i eat other stuff, but i suppose it is for people who have been meat eaters and turned vegetarian that miss eating meat but dont want to eat meat because of killing animals. It's fair enough, if they like it.

Answer 2

I find people that have been veggie for longer tend to use those kind of things less... it's more important for making it seem easy and not having people having to change the diet of a whol family if they can substitute veggie stuff for the meat part in an arrangement like 1 child veggie. Or fitting in at a BBQ or family meal etcetc

Also sausages and burgers are just shape. They don't come out the animal that shape and are generally quite processed. So meat brugers and sausages are no less "fake" than veggie ones. No-one gave meateaters copyright over what shape food is.

Answer 3

Because all your life growing up, you probably ate hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage, etc., and it is good that there are vegetarian hamburgers and hot dogs, etc, because you can be vegetarian and still enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs without having to worry that it is actually nasty meat that you are eating.

Growing up (when I was a kid before I was vegetarian) I used to love hamburgers and hot dogs. Although, even at the young age of 7 or 8 years old, I thought hamburger meat was gross, and when it was hamburger night, I told my mom to make mine really really thin, like the Krystal burgers, thin. Around about that age I stopped eating hamburger meat in spaghetti too, so I always knew that I haven't liked meat.
I remember biting into the "grissels" in the hamburger and realizing that it was some hard "grissel" that came from the animal meat not being chopped up enough or was too tough to be chopped up, and since that age meat like that has always grossed me out.

What is crazy, is that sometimes when I am eating the veggie hamburgers, I will bite into something that is kind of hard every now and then (which is probably a bean or part of a bean) but it kind of grosses me out even though I know there is no meat in it. Meat is gross to eat.

But anyways, it is good to still eat stuff you enjoyed without actually eating meat.

Answer 4

I love meat. It is seriously my favorite thing to cook and to eat. However, I recently stopped eating any meat that I can't buy locally or organically. I stopped because although I don't have a problem with killing and eating an animal, too many animals are treated horribly and killed increadibly painfully. I try not to eat any animal if I haven't had an opportunity to see how it lived.
Since I am on a college budget, I can't really eat meat anymore because local organic meat is very expensive. I have found however, that many artificial meats are actually very good. It's nice to have the taste and almost the texture of meat every so often. It makes it easier for me to be a conciencious omnivore.
There are also some, like garden burgers, that don't even try to duplicate the taste of meat. I like those the best. They taste good, and they aren't trying to be something that they aren't.

Answer 5

Most vegetarians that I know, including me, don't actually eat that stuff unless we are trying to fit in with meat eaters or to feed meat eaters at our meat-free houses.

If I'm going to a BBQ I'll take a veggie burger just to fit in so I don't have to make a fuss. Those kind of products also make the initial transition to vegetarianism easier as the foods are more familiar.

I confess a weakness for quorn sausages though; they just taste good!

Answer 6

Just because a person chooses not to eat the flesh of an animal anymore does not mean they do not like the flavor. I finally gave up chicken about a year ago and am thrilled that there are substitutes.

It does not matter the shape of it, We KNOW it's not meat. Regardles of that, the consumer doesnt make the shape or manufacture the stuff. We have no control how the companies decide to shape the food.

Answer 7

I think the reason is most vegetarians were previous meat eaters. It is kinda like when Mexicans will put jalapenos on everything, ever if it is a hamburger or pizza. We all like what we are used to. (didn't mean to make a reference to only Mexicans, but that example came to mind, not trying to be racist, I love mexicans and their style of food) :-)

I think most people become vegetarians because the believe it is healthy or they do not want to eat animals. It is not necessarily because they think meat is gross. Some people eventually find meat eating gross, but it doesn't mean they didn't miss the memories or flavors.

For me, I missed certain things, that's why it was nice when they made a vegetarian version, of say turkey slices. I just don't want to eat dead animals, but would enjoy eating products that are like meat, just not meat. We like to eat what we are used to.

They say it is easier to change a man's religion than his diet. The fake meat products just make it easier, and then you don't feel you are out of your comfort zone.

Answer 8

I know - Vegetarians are just weird, Its ridiculous that they refuse to eat meat but want their substitutes in the shape of an animal

Answer 9

Teena M - why shouldn;t your friend want to get the taste of real chicken, or bacon or whatever, without wanting to sacrifice her veggie principles - it is the killing of the animals rather than their taste that vegetarians don;t like...

Answer 10

It's so that if everyone is having sausage, then a veggie having a veggie one doesn't look odd to others round the table