If vegetables are your thing, why not eat vegetables in vegetable form?
The imitation stuff is always terrible. Vegetables are great when you don't mess with them.
Those people might choose to use a meat-substitute, if it was reasonably similar in taste/texture/resulting product, and had less harmful impacts on the world.
> If vegetables are your thing, why not eat vegetables in vegetable form?
> The imitation stuff is always terrible. Vegetables are great when you don't mess with them.
The same thing can be posed to omnivores too, and you'll see that your argument is not very convincing. Meat is great when cooked unspiced, why dope it with other flavors, spices, and gravies? Why process it to alter its texture and taste?
As a flexitarian, I've come to like the taste of imitation meat, even as I have difficulty tolerating the taste of most meats most of the time. Consider it an interesting processed food product along the lines of ham and tofu, rather than sadder meat.
I agree, that doesn't sound particularly appealing