I'm not a vegetarian, but I had some recent comments on this, as someone who's currently using Beyond Meat as their primary protein source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/gtrcm5/comment/...

tl;dr:

* It's potentially safer than meat during the pandemic

* I support any advancements that may enable humanity to phase out killing animals over the long term, such as clean meat (lab-grown meat) and plant-based meat

* It's one of a very small number of high-quality (high-PDCAAS and low-carbohydrate) protein sources that I'm aware of

* Enjoyment-wise, it's a close enough substitute for my taste

* I'm somewhat concerned about it being a heavily processed food as well as reportedly having its pea protein isolate sourced from China, and I wish they would reduce (or eliminate) the canola oil in favor of more coconut oil, but afaict there's nothing obviously terrible in it