[PzLdr]

Oxymoron

[blackdog]

Response to what?

[Alex Murphy]

...I believe it’s called “lettuce”.

[Jemian]

If eating vegan is so good, why are they often trying to make it taste like meat?

[JimRed]

The fake bacon from soy is not too bad, but nothing beats the real thing (must be crispy!).

[babble-on]

totally nuts!

[freedumb2003]

bad plan.

The proper plan is to make REAL bacon and MARKET it as being vegan (”No beef!”).

Then sell it in large quantities to muslims.

[hoagy62]

Vegan bacon? Isn’t that a substance that can case a world-ending paradox?

[VRWCmember]

Proper response to vegan bacon?

[Honorary Serb]

As an Orthodox Christian, I eat vegan on fasting days, which account for half the year. I tend to avoid fake “meat” vegan foods, but some Orthodox find them helpful.

On non-fasting days, I eat meat. During the Pascha season (right now), following the long vegan weeks of Great Lent, I eat LOTS of meat!!!! Pork is included!

And I don’t want any government, or global superstate, telling me not to eat meat, or how much meat to eat!!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The last time I got stuck in the hospital they served some kind of fake bacon. It took the rest of the day to get the taste out of my mouth, really nasty stuff!

[ctdonath2]

If you are going to great lengths to emulate that which you demonize, something is wrong with your philosophy.

[Dr. Sivana]

G.K. Chesterton wrote on this 100 years ago:

Honesty in Vegetarianism

Then, of course, there is the larger and more philosophic riddle of why the vegetarians, or fruitarians, try to make their dishes sound, or even seem, like meat dishes? Why do they talk nonsense about nut-cutlets or tomato toad-in-the-hole? Why do they make nutton rhyme to mutton, and nutter rhyme to butter? It seems a futile poetical exercise. It cannot be supposed to take grow on trees. We might as well talk about picking sausages in the hedgerows, or growing fish-cakes in our own garden. But while it is not deceptive, it is degrading. It is beneath the dignity of men who (though a trifle mad) are manifestly sincere believers in their cause, that they should elaborately mimic the shapes and titles of the system which they seek to dethrone. We expect Food Reformers to be prigs; but they need not be snobs too. If they really think it wrong to eat meat, if they honestly consider it a kind of cannibalism, why should they introduce reminders of the revolting habit they have renounced? When South Sea Islanders are reclaimed from cannibalism, I never heard that their food was dressed so as to look like a missionary. I never heard that the dishes were called "Smith Sauté" or "Brown a la Maitre d'Hetel." Moreover, these disguises are artistically very inappropriate to the cause in question. There is poetry in nearly everything, even in a fruit diet. But the poetry depends wholly on simplicity; there is a certain human and traditional beauty about the idea of a man living on wild fruits in a wood or on rich fruits in a garden; but not about a man eating mashed and mis-named fruit along with a cup of Brunak. These fruitarian gourmets and epicures take away from a fruit diet the one real attraction that it has ever had for human imagination—its directness, its coolness and cleanliness, its scent of Eden. I will eat nuts with any man—or with any monkey. But they must be nuts—not nutton, or nutter, or nusco, or nutrogen, or nuttolene, or nuttose, or nutarian Cashew.
The true compromise lies somewhere here. Some people, I believe, adopt the compromise about drink of being teetotalers between meals. Well, I am a vegetarian between meals. From breakfast to lunch not a leg of mutton crosses my lips. During all that time I am an earnest and active nutarian, munching away and laying up stores of health. It is this careless habit of eating a turkey or a salmon at odd times during the day that does so much harm. Only four times a day I will eat, like a man; for the rest I will browse happily, like all the beasts of the field.

[The_Reader_David]

I can see three uses for such a product, only two of which seem likely to apply to any FReepers:

1. As a palliative for a bacon-lover obliged to cut bacon out his or her diet for health reasons

2. As a means for Orthodox Christians with a great fondness for bacon to keep the fasts appointed by the Church more easily. Nothing from an animal with a backbone, though some allow fish-roe. Come to think of it soy-”bacon”-wrapped shrimp sounds like great hors d’ouevres in the depths of Great Lent, have to bring them to church coffee-hour sometime.

and (relevant to leftist hippy-dippy types only)

3. As a way of easing into vegetarianism or veganism if one goes off the deep-end and turns all sentimental about killing animals.

[Yo-Yo]

Did Kevin change his first name?

[tx_eggman]

I want to know what vegans feed their cats.

[Keith in Iowa]

Vegan Bacon... is it kosher?