Eating something that tastes as much like real meat as possible is missing the point.
That rather suggests you're a vegetarian because you don't like the taste. What if you're a vegetarian who thinks that meat tastes good but you are willing to abstain for ethical principles.
No, I am primarily an ethical vegetarian, and I find the idea of pretending to eat meat somehow wrong. It really wasn't what I was aiming at. To use a crude analogy, if someone who had sex with chickens said to you "well, if you don't want to fuck an actual chicken, we can always get you a rubber chicken to pretend on", you'd think their reasoning was basically flawed, even if the rubber chicken felt good.
The other problem with fake meat – indistinguishable from dead animal – is how do you tell them apart? How do you know which you are being served?
Decaff coffee and caffienated coffee look and taste similair yet somehow people manage to serve both and caffiene intolerant people manage to order them.
I think the chicken example is flawed. If I said I greatly enjoyed the taste of eating meat but abstained for ethical reasons people may find this admirable. If I said I enjoyed the sensation of having sex with chickens but abstained for moral reasons then people would be unlikely to admire this. I do not think anyone but a lunatic would find someone reprehensible for enjoying the taste of meat.
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That rather suggests you're a vegetarian because you don't like the taste. What if you're a vegetarian who thinks that meat tastes good but you are willing to abstain for ethical principles.
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The other problem with fake meat – indistinguishable from dead animal – is how do you tell them apart? How do you know which you are being served?
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I think the chicken example is flawed. If I said I greatly enjoyed the taste of eating meat but abstained for ethical reasons people may find this admirable. If I said I enjoyed the sensation of having sex with chickens but abstained for moral reasons then people would be unlikely to admire this. I do not think anyone but a lunatic would find someone reprehensible for enjoying the taste of meat.
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