As a veggie I do hope all the meat replacements vanish. The ones that are made to taste or look like a chunk of meat, no thank you. I read they were making fake meat that would bleed like a rare steak!
I started not eating meat due to texture, and now the thought of it puts me off too,. I've returned dishes in veggie restaurants because they've made it taste like beef. I am with you on not liking quorn, and I think if you want to eat meat just do it. Then restaurants can stop making the few veggie options I can have taste like meat.
For me, this is profoundly sad, and - perhaps embarrassingly, though I don’t really care - I cried when I read about that restaurant. I’ve been a vegetarian (and on-off vegan) for… 18 years, I am raising my child as a pescatarian (robust evidence suggests that specifically the long-chain fatty acids of Omega 3 can only be consumed in oily fish, and that is all that is missing from a vegetarian diet), and the rise of a plant-based diet has been one of few things that has consoled me in a time of seeming-pushback against progress in favour of so-called traditional values, which include a cultural palate of a meat-focused plate. My partner also works in asset management for businesses with eco creds, one of which is at the helm of producing lab-grown meat as a way to appeal to the aforementioned palate, whilst pushing forward with reducing meat consumption for the sake of the planet. I think you’re right that veganism became trendy, and I feared this day would come. Having said that, ‘fear’ is perhaps the wrong word; to my way of thinking, it was inevitable and cannot be separated from a more general movement in the direction of conservatism (lower and upper case C!).
It should also be added that when the ‘wellness’ charlatans monopolise something, like veganism, it loses its political power and, as you say, just becomes a fad that’s tied in with a fondness for being thin (or more accurately, a hatred for fatness) and an assumption that thinness is synonymous with good health. When the foundations are that rickety… I guess the relative mainstream… ness?! Mainstreamness of veganism, was bound to fall apart.
There is a huge push (with some science - although I appreciate you can cherry pick your science) to support meat . Big industry wants you in a high sugar / carb cycle and I think we have lost the value of vitamins and fats from eating meat . Just an observation , but friends are now carnivore and I feel better with more meat lower carb. !
As a veggie I do hope all the meat replacements vanish. The ones that are made to taste or look like a chunk of meat, no thank you. I read they were making fake meat that would bleed like a rare steak!
I started not eating meat due to texture, and now the thought of it puts me off too,. I've returned dishes in veggie restaurants because they've made it taste like beef. I am with you on not liking quorn, and I think if you want to eat meat just do it. Then restaurants can stop making the few veggie options I can have taste like meat.
Life long veggie and couldn’t agree more! It’s processed beyond belief.
For me, this is profoundly sad, and - perhaps embarrassingly, though I don’t really care - I cried when I read about that restaurant. I’ve been a vegetarian (and on-off vegan) for… 18 years, I am raising my child as a pescatarian (robust evidence suggests that specifically the long-chain fatty acids of Omega 3 can only be consumed in oily fish, and that is all that is missing from a vegetarian diet), and the rise of a plant-based diet has been one of few things that has consoled me in a time of seeming-pushback against progress in favour of so-called traditional values, which include a cultural palate of a meat-focused plate. My partner also works in asset management for businesses with eco creds, one of which is at the helm of producing lab-grown meat as a way to appeal to the aforementioned palate, whilst pushing forward with reducing meat consumption for the sake of the planet. I think you’re right that veganism became trendy, and I feared this day would come. Having said that, ‘fear’ is perhaps the wrong word; to my way of thinking, it was inevitable and cannot be separated from a more general movement in the direction of conservatism (lower and upper case C!).
It should also be added that when the ‘wellness’ charlatans monopolise something, like veganism, it loses its political power and, as you say, just becomes a fad that’s tied in with a fondness for being thin (or more accurately, a hatred for fatness) and an assumption that thinness is synonymous with good health. When the foundations are that rickety… I guess the relative mainstream… ness?! Mainstreamness of veganism, was bound to fall apart.
There is a huge push (with some science - although I appreciate you can cherry pick your science) to support meat . Big industry wants you in a high sugar / carb cycle and I think we have lost the value of vitamins and fats from eating meat . Just an observation , but friends are now carnivore and I feel better with more meat lower carb. !