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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by delta_p_delta_x on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:10PM (#37374624)
> I avoid those.

You might want to reconsider. East and South-East Asia have been developing and using meat substitutes for at least several decades, if not centuries: they are based on soya, konjac, flour, mushroom fibres, etc, and they taste phenomenal. They may not precisely resemble the meat that they look like (there's mock mutton, mock shrimp, mock chicken, mock sausages, mock ham, mock duck, mock pork ribs, mock pretty much anything), but the texture, aroma, and taste are superb, and they work well both stir-fried, or as proteins in stews/gravies/curries.

I think the Western effort to imitate meat is less likely to be successful than the already-existing Asian mock-meats industry: in the West, it seems people want their imitations to look exactly like meat, with all the blood and fat and everything, which is going to be significantly more expensive and taste a lot worse than something that merely resembles meat visually and letting the taste and texture be different.

Consider the options here[1], for instance.

[1]: https://www.friendlyvegetarian.com.sg/

Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by seba_dos1 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:58PM (#37375828)
Exactly. These days I even prefer some of the mock meats (especially seitan); not because they imitate meat so well (they don't), but because I often find their taste and texture nicer and more consistent than that of real meat.