why do people who don't eat meat want to replicate the idea....?

Question

...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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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?

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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 !

Answer 7

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..

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

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?