Oh this thread is funny! Starts a goady thread focused for some reason on vegetarians and vegans about junk food and then concludes vegans are angry for pointing out some of the ridiculousness on the thread.
These items are not just for vegans and veges, plenty of people eat them to reduce meat intake and for variety, with only a teeny tiny percentage of the population being vegan the huge volume of plant based junk foods aren’t just eaten by vegans! That’s just basic math.
As a farmers daughter myself, you might want to know that your meat is processed too. Heavily heavily processed. From the start of the animals life, to its death, and then in the processing of the meat. Deli meats are the most processed food you could imagine. Even my farmer Dad doesn’t eat that crap, although he will eat his brothers ham which even though processed in my Uncles killing house and butchery, is still heavily processed with huge volumes of salt.
they made these junk foods to imitate what you get from meat: fat and salt. I think very few people buying don’t realise they’re junk foods. For vegans, the focus is not harming animals if you have the choice not to, so things tasting like or looking like meat are not relevant or off putting to many. Some vegans don’t like it though. Everyone is different.
I don’t know why there is some sort of responsibility or expectation on vegans and vegetarians to adhere to some kind of health plan that animal product consumers aren’t or why vegans aren’t allowed junk in the same way without being audited over it, but junk food and poor eating is a problem in our society that existed before these newer types of processed ‘plant’ foods existed- although they’re more like edible food like substances to me. Why it’s suddenly so alarming or concerning to you that plant eaters might be eating junk, when animal product consumers eat junk food all the time on top of their heavily processed meat and dairy, is rather strange to me.