• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I mean, I eat lettuce and beans and tortillas every other day. I’m surviving pretty good. Add some oatmeal in the morning and oat milk at night. Oat milk is basically processed food too but I mean it can be done just blending it … chrome on the blades of the blender. But it looks traditional to me. I’ve been eating beans most of my life. I got no need for some thing made of beans that tastes weird so it can remind me of meat. However, lol like oat milk, maybe the fake chicken and beef should just have a different name. I like for example the fake chicken nuggets but I thought the whole Vegan thing was about not murdering the little bastards. Why not call it plant nuggets? Like walk away from the entire murder thing and come up with alternatives. Like when I see a lemon 🍋, I know what it tastes like. If I see a fake lemon and doesn’t taste like lemon, then it sucks. But there’s a ton of different citrus that are not lemon which are called totally differently than people like them… Mandarin, calamanci, orange, grape fruit, etc. each has their flavour. So chicken, beef, tofu, protein bar?

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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      3 days ago

      Because more people need to know what the alternative is mimicking giving it weird names like faux meat reduces the amount of meat eaters who try them out thus slowing down the reduction of animal suffering.

      Here’s a counter argument why aren’t Easter eggs called faux Easter eggs? When they don’t contain eggs.