Vegan burgers and substitutions are for reducing meat consumption, not enabling vegans. It is much more useful to enable the broad majority to be less harmful, rather than helping a small minority.
As a vegetarian I do want it to taste like meat. That’s how you get more people to try veggie meals.
Source: me with my family.
My immediate family now eats less meat due to liking the stuff I have, and more veggie stuff in general.
Some even prefer the ‘meat’ burgers -Beyond, Aldi plant based etc- over their old beef burgers.
They wouldn’t have even thought of trying them and be converted if they weren’t any “creepy and gross” alternatives.
As someone who currently eats meat but trying to reduce consumption for environmental reasons, I 100% want a vegan burger that tastes like the real deal
As a vegan I actually don’t want it to taste exactly like meat — that’s just creepy and gross.
We are talking burger here, not your genitals.
No, animal-burgers are definitely disturbing if you can see past your own bias.
One has severe and immediate ecological implications. Like ‘next few hours’ immediate.
Vegan burgers and substitutions are for reducing meat consumption, not enabling vegans. It is much more useful to enable the broad majority to be less harmful, rather than helping a small minority.
As a vegetarian I do want it to taste like meat. That’s how you get more people to try veggie meals.
Source: me with my family.
My immediate family now eats less meat due to liking the stuff I have, and more veggie stuff in general.
Some even prefer the ‘meat’ burgers -Beyond, Aldi plant based etc- over their old beef burgers.
They wouldn’t have even thought of trying them and be converted if they weren’t any “creepy and gross” alternatives.
As someone who currently eats meat but trying to reduce consumption for environmental reasons, I 100% want a vegan burger that tastes like the real deal
Do you try veggie burgers every now and then to see where it’s at, at least?
Because some of them really are good. Or decent at least. Some are less than delicious, but eh.
Definitely they’re improving all the time.
I do actually, the beyond burger era has been pretty good for upping the game but they’re not quite they’re yet IMO
I’m completely with you that they’re improving though, I think the smash burger style is gonna get there soon
The best vegan/vegetarian food I’ve had was the stuff that got away from finding substitutes for meat and just did its own thing.
I like both worlds: “traditional” vegan food as well as the processed meat substitutes.
Same. Plant-forward veggie burgers are great. Seitan is a revelation.