veg sausages
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can someone plese tell me why if eating meat upsets them so much then why eat fake non meat items that look like the l thing
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Because no animal was murdered to produce it.
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The main reason is to provide foods that are familiar and desirable to those of us who were raised on meat and who would otherwise miss it on our pizza and in our buns. Except that the main flavors are not the meat. The main flavors are the seasonings. The meat flavors without seasonings are combinations of electrolytic salts, vitamins, minerals, Amino Acids, proteins, fats, starches and sugars, and the caramel which develops from grilling or roasting, all of which are available from plants, else the animal wouldn't have any either. The poor animal still gets no caramel though. But it does occur to me that, in using vegetable proteins for creating meat analogs, the dishes could be far removed from meat characteristics. They could be a protein dish like a flan with sweet raspberry sauce, or as a crispy protein roux atop a vegetable and pasta casserole in a cream sauce of savory garden vegetable bouillon, carrageenan and electrolytes in a tortilla wrap.
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Of course, the reason that we have real ground beef, hamburgers in the shape of a puck, hot dogs, sausages in patties and links, etc., is to disguise the cut of meat so it doesn't look like a piece of an animal. For people who prefer meat, the boneless cuts are still very popular.
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I eat them just because they taste good. but they are sooooo bad for you. I had to inform a vegan that all that soy was as mucus producing as milk. and let's not forget how bad too much gluten is for you. but they taste soooo good. even my non-veggie co workers eat this stuff just because they like it too. back in the 70s, when I participated in taste test for soy foods, to us it was the Space Age food of the future.
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But why use Soy? Why not just use wheat, corn, barley, alfalfa, to produce the meatless products the same as the animal?
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I'm not sure when the veggie meats first came out, though I market tested them back in the 70s, but I know that a company called Worthington has been marketing them for a very long long time in cans designed to be stockpiled. Worthington was a 7th day Adventest run company. That's a Christian religion that believes in vegetarianism as part of it's doctrine and promoted it before it was trendy. I don't know if they started it but they were among the first.
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You mean Loma Linda Foods? Loma Linda Foods services the Adventists. Worthington Foods owned Loma Linda and Morningstar Farms, now Kelloggs owns all three product lines and Worthington Foods. Worthington Foods was a division of Miles Laboratories, famous for the "One-a-Day" brand of vitamins. The Loma Linda line is/was Vegan, though in the past, their products such as "Vita-Burger" (a dry soy burger-substitute mix) included optional instructions and recipes for using eggs in preparation). The Worthington line is lacto-oval, often using eggs in the products. Morningstar Farms is also lacto-oval. I think the Adventists used to be vegan, but looking around, they've apparently since gone lacto-oval. Loma Linda used to have a wonderful product; "Nutena!" which was a tasty peanut meal loaf that was grilled in the skillet before serving, similar to a broiled natural peanut butter-on-bread toast. Spread the bread with butter or margarine and natural peanut butter and broil, or pre-toast the bread lightly, then apply the spreads and broil to finish. Tasty using Italian bread!
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And for nostalgia sake, back in the 70's during the beef shortage, the Globe A1 Pasta company introduced a line of dry skillet casserole kits which used "cubed" vegi-beef and vegi-bullion sauces and was sold as using no animal products, but was short-lived. Now if someone would do this with "Cup 'O Noodles" but without the phosphate additives.
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I`ve known some Seventh Day Adventists who most certainly are not vegetarian let alone vegan. A quick look at the internet reveals that around 35% of Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarian.(None of them local to me, I`m guessing).
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For many folks, the strict adherence to a religious discipline is something we don't talk about much.
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I wonder if that`s part of the discipline that just hasn`t made it over to the UK.the Seventh Day Adventist I knew hardly knew what a vegetarian was!
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nightowl1234:
can someone plese tell me why if eating meat upsets them so much then why eat fake non meat items that look like the l thing
I agree with femaleanimal & audleys piano here... Being raised on meat, I got to like the taste of it, but (when I turned 14), I decided enough was enough. I wasn't going to eat an animal who was so callously killed for our greed!! Each to their own - we are all entitled to our beliefs & opinions - but personally, I couldn't cuddle my dogs & eat a 'cousin' of theirs xxx
