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[Ashley Evans]

On Saturday 04 December 2004 21:06, John Winters wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:54, Chris Bell wrote:
> >    But vegetarians go out of their way to disguise non-meat products,
> > some people think that there is some real meat in all sausages, there is
> > soya "milk", margarine, etc...
>
> I always find that one a bit odd.  I eat a lot of vegetarian food, but I
> draw the line at vegetarian food which is pretending to be meat-food.
> Every single vegetarian sausage I've ever tasted has been repulsive.
> Why bother?  If you're a vegetarian then you don't need to pretend to
> yourself that you're not.
>
> There is of course no possible chance of coming up with a substitute for
> a decent bacon sandwich.  (Don't get me started on the mystery of why
> people by cheap, crap supermarket bacon and then complain about how crap
> it is.)
>
> John

I think we should remember that there are, at least, two types of vegetarian 
people.  Those who chose a meat free life for animal welfare and those who 
simply don't like the taste of meat.

Thus, there is a perfectly valid argument *for* the meat-like products such a 
veggie sausages.  Even as a meat-eater I find veggie sausages actually taste 
quite nice, not anything like sausages admittedly, but nice nonetheless.  Of 
course they're full of synthetic crap so I don't usually eat them, but that's 
not the point :)

You are most certainly right about bacon sandwiches, there's nothing like one 
on a Sunday morning either!

As for people buying cheap supermarket meat, I'd rather blame the faceless 
corporate supermarkets who think that profit is the only goal worth chasing. 

Ashley

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