Why vegans eat food that looks and tastes like meat (veg and animal rights group)

[mucifer]

I have never seen it explained so well.

[Quackers]

1. Doesn't that mean that vegans/vegetarians enjoy the taste of meat then?

Besides of personal beliefs about eating meat, I thought they found it repulsive?

Edit: I just seen this was in a group. It was on the front page when I clicked. Didn’t mean any offense. Just honest questions and confusion on my part.

[lapfog_1]

2. humans are wired by thousands of years of evolution

to be omnivores... from our teeth to our vision system to our stomachs and intestinal tracts.

That said, it is a choice to be vegan or not.

but enjoying something that tastes like meat is likely wired by evolution.

[Quackers]

4. I like this answer. Thanks! nt

[handmade34]

3. not all vegans/vegetarians

think the same... we are a diverse group we V's... some grew up eating meat and enjoy the taste but choose not to for ethical/environmental reasons... some of us just don't like eating meat, don't like the taste or texture...

[mucifer]

6. Some do some don't . It's weird I'm grossed out by the fake burgers that taste real

But, I like the fake sandwich meats and fake chicken tenders. I can't explain it.
Most vegans do it for the animals and it has nothing to do with taste. Plus a lot of the taste comes from seasonings.
I haven't eaten meat since 1982 so I'm not even sure I really remember what it tastes like.

[MLAA]

11. It's the torture and killing of animals that is repulsive for me, not the taste.

I enjoy lots of vegan burger and non-dairy cheese type products. 😊

[Codeine]

13. Why would we find it repulsive?

I’ve never known anyone who said meat repulsed them. I find seafood repulsive in the extreme, but not meat in general.

[Wawannabe]

5. I still don't get that logic.

Has always been my question about vegetarians and vegans. This response is not helpful in solving the mystery in my mind.

Why does some of the foods vegetarians/vegans eat need to look like meat looks and tastes? It’s irrational.

Vegan burgers. Meat.
Vegan cheese. Dairy derived from a cow.
Totally irrational.

[mucifer]

7. you think a burger looks like a cow?

Vegans have memories of tastes we enjoy and we want to replicate it sometimes. What we don't like is the animals who live their lives tortured and suffering and die young. We don't like that.

[AleksS]

8. It's actually really simple

It’s actually really simple:

I like the taste of meat.
I do not like the environmental/ethical issues that come with meat.

Therefore, if I can eat something with the taste of meat (which I like) but also without the baggage of meat (like the havoc for the environment and the cruelty of mass industrial scale meat farms) then I should eat that.

If those products did not exist, I still would not eat meat, because the harm outweighs the flavor in my mind.

But those products do exist, so I can get what I like (the flavor) without the stuff I don’t like (cruelty and environmental damage).

[mucifer]

9. Yup so many people tell me they can't go vegan because they like the taste of animals

But, then others get upset if we eat foods that taste like animals but aren't animals. I don't understand why that upsets them.

[MLAA]

10. Perfect!

I do like my vegan junk food....Impossible and Beyond Meat burgers and sausage. They are good tasting and nobody had to die for my dinner 😉

[yewberry]

12. Actually laughed out loud.

I'm always a little surprised by the curiosity about why we might eat meat analogues and the expectation that we're a monolithic group.

FWIW, I stopped eating meat in the 80s. Meat analogues at the time were pretty wretched so it's taken me a long time to even consider them. But I have to say, it's really nice to have something for me to eat at summer parties that's not the bean & vegetable salad I brought. People here have probably heard this story, but at a picnic back in the olden days, I was presented with corn on a bun as the veg option. Loose canned corn on a bun. So yeah, why shouldn't I be able to have a 'burger' like everyone else? That said, if it's too realistic, it does make me a little uncomfortable. I tried the vegan Whopper and it freaked me right the fuck out.

These days, I'm enjoying the Tofurky line of deli slices. In moderation. (Sodium, yikes.) And all the new Gardein products are fun. I actually find them really hilarious. Spaghetti and meatballs? Fish-ish sticks? Sliders? I'm not sorry, that's funny stuff when you haven't eaten it for decades. Strange but true-feeling analogy: it's a little like going to a costume party.