There really is no need to eat meat anymore!

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There is nothing, nothing I say, that cannot be recreated in veg form

I tried this recently because I love jerky. It was OK I suppose but absolutely no substitute for meat jerky. Sorry.

That stuff is delicious.
I had vegan slice sausage the other day. It's the first time in 40 years I've been able to eat a roll and slice and potato scone. I was so happy

Smoked streaky bacon; there can be no substitute for the real thing; or the crackling from a roast pork joint; the slightly pink middle of a medium steak, or the skin from a freshly roasted chicken.

...but generally it tastes disgusting! sorry I just cannot get worked up about a nice juicy piece of quorn/synthetic shite. I love eating veggies but its the faux sausages, burgers and now jerky that I just cant be doing with and never will. Eating less meat - yep good idea but quorn and its friends taste like chemicals to me.

No need to apologise rec, it just amuses me that people stop eating meat, to eat fake meat.

Maybe, but there are a lot of people who like meat. Interesting and worth a try for vegetarians and vegans though

Just love roast's, steak, sausages, lamb chops and spag bol, no intentions of giving up meat, everyone to there own.

It’s made with soya and wheat. Loads of people won’t be able to eat that. But virtually nobody is allergic to meat. YABU to say it’s a reasonable alternative until they stop using allergens as meat substitutes.

@scaryteacher, you are wrong - look here

Oh, there's every need to eat meat. Especially red meat: beef and lamb.

IANBU. I was joking!

I know too many vegans and vegetarians that are so thin, unhealthy and have the fitness level of 105 year old that I couldn't care any less what substitute there is for meat, no way I'm converting!

Lots of those alternatives aren’t so wholesome when you look at the ingredients.

If that jerky is the stuff from Aldi, it made me vomit in my mouth.

I looked at the ingredients of a vegan burger and the main ingredient was a mixture of six kinds of oil, cold-pressed.

I'd rather bite into a cow's arse than suck back a pint of oil pressed into a burger shape.

Ooo yum not envy

@JQBased are all the meat eaters you know super fit and healthy? Not really helpful to generalise like this - all types of diet can be unhealthy...

mushroom mince it’s just minced up mushrooms

What is with all the veggie/vegan bashing threads here lately? And people claim that vegans are the rude ones

I like waitrose own-brand bean burgers. But anything pretending to be meat just doesn’t seem that great.

Odd that so many posters haven't picked up on your tone op .

No wonder people resort to putting "light hearted" in thread titles.

I know lots of omnivores that are underweight/overweight/unfit/have acne, etc. What's your point?

I'm a vegetarian who's never tried meat, and I don't understand why I'm supposed to want a fake steak that 'bleeds' 🤷🏼‍♀️ or a vegan KFC burger.

Lots of meat alternatives aren’t good enough for actual meat eaters. My DP is a meat eater and I’m a veggie so he’s tried lots of meat alternatives. He says a lot of tastes the same but the bacon (or facon as I call it) doesn’t cut the mustard.

I know. If you don't want to eat some overprocessed crap, don't do it. But to pretend that this is a) what the average vegan mainly eats and b) that this makes a vegan diet unhealthy is just poor reasoning.