What’s stopping you from going meatless? A new survey says lack of flavor is the number one factor.

the take out ^

[mylife]

It’s becoming easier and easier to adopt a plant-based diet. Along with more ways to make fruits and vegetables delicious, there’s no shortage of meatless fish, chicken nuggets, beloved fast food burgers, even whole restaurant concepts dedicated to plant-based eats. While the introduction of some of these items leaves us scratching our heads, wondering if the arguments for sustainable meatless eating are even possible under our broken food system, the good news is that such developments continue to normalize vegetarian and vegan lifestyles.

So, what’s stopping people from ditching meat for good? Talker reports that taste may be the number-one factor. In a poll of 2,000 Americans (commissioned by vegan cheese brand Violife), 17% of respondents said they had tried a plant-based diet but couldn’t keep it up, citing lack of flavor and not enough options as the top deterrents. Some also pointed to social and familial pressures, saying it was much harder to maintain a vegan or vegetarian diet when those around them were sticking to meat and cheese. Peer pressure truly never goes away.

Still, there seems to be a widespread interest in trying to incorporate at least some vegan and vegetarian practices into daily life. Of those surveyed, half said they were curious about trying out a plant-based diet, with 75% saying they would rather pick and choose some plant-based options rather than going “all in” on the lifestyle. On average, folks who tried out veganism and vegetarianism fully stuck to it for three months.

Health seems to be the top motivating factor for switching up eating habits (even though the survey also shows that 63% of people eat whatever they want and don’t give a hoot about health factors—very relatable).

[mylife]

Greek salad with gyro meat and feta!! Yom

[Vision]

Human beings are meant to eat meat.

[mylife]

agreed

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "In a poll of 2,000 Americans (commissioned by vegan cheese brand Violife)..."

An observation: a great deal of "news" is marketing, presented as if news.

A triumph of marketing is of course the mRNA pharmaceuticals getting both legal liability for products alongside free marketing though daily "news."

But marketing overall is about trying to affect a consumer's choices. This marketing presented as the announcement of a poll hides the underlying premise. One can "go vegan" without ever buying fake meat and fake cheese and :vegan" bacon. Just do the full vegan or lacto-ovo route, and you're done.

Everything else is marketing and messaging. Buy my "ersatz" whatever, because it will "almost like" whatever. Once one learns to see the marketing underlying "news" -- the new book review, the new "green" product, and the like -- good, old "caveat emptor" returns.

[mylife]

:)

[Mygirlsmom]

Fake meat is not any healthier than real meat and in many cases not AS healthy.

Agreed. Nor is it the “save the planet” panacea the virtue signallers believe it to be.

Also, not everyone does well on a vegetarian diet. I guess they hope to rid the world of those types?

[N. Theknow]

MMMM! Plant food!

[Mariner]

For me it is nutrition.

No comparison.

[wbarmy]

I can either cook Texas Red or add beans. Since I have five children with all the associated “others” that show up for dinner, I add beans. “Others” being grandchildren, fiancés, boyfriends, etc.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Because when I don’t get animal meat, I get an uncontrollable urge to stalk a herd of grazing vegetarians at Whole Foods or Sprouts, due to their wide selection, looking to cull one that looks particularly weak or trendy.

From the concealment of the parking lot, I spring out and break its neck, easy because their bones and muscles are weak, then drag it over to some quiet spot for the feast.

While initially startled, the rest of the vegetarians soon return to shopping, keeping a more watchful eye for any remaining omnivores unwilling to subsist on the pseudo-meats produced by Fauci Labs, GmbH.

[Mygirlsmom]

Vegan Frankenfood is what it is...and yes, the latest marketing buzz-word 🙄

[Army Air Corps]

Impossible burger meat textured vegetable protein truthfully isnt bad at all. It has an inherent savory taste to it. Not meat but not bad.

[redcatcherb412]

weird after taste

Probably the faux liquid smoke they soak the meat in to imitate the flame broiled aroma and taste. It stays with you long after you've finished eating it.

[Army Air Corps]

There was a recent article in the NYT, of all places, that examined how vegetable “meat” is less sustainable than real meat.

[mylife]

In Tx, I just serve em on the side, you want beans? add beans.. you wand cheese? sour cream? etc

[SmokingJoe]

Why would any sane person who eats meat want to go meatless?

[KarlInOhio]

there’s no shortage of meatless fish, chicken nuggets, beloved fast food burgers,

I would rather eat food from a cow or a sow than food from Dow. If I have to go meatless it would be far healthier to eat vegetables that a chemical patty on a bun.

[Paal Gulli]

From the Author:

I was a vegan for almost 20 years.

I know the reasons that compelled me to embrace an extreme diet, and they are honorable — even noble. Reasons such as justice, compassion, and a desperate, all-encompassing longing to set the world right. To save the planet — the last trees bearing witness to ages and the scraps of wilderness still nurturing fading species, silent in their fur and feathers. To protect the vulnerable, the voiceless. To feed the hungry. At the very least, to refrain from participating in the horror of factory farming.

These political passions are born of a hunger so deep it touches on the spiritual. They were for me, and they still are. I want my life — my body — to be a place where the Earth is cherished, not devoured; where the sadist is granted no quarter; where the violence stops. And I want eating — the first nurturance — to be an act that sustains rather than kills. This is an effort to honor our deepest longings for a just world. And I now believe those longings — for compassion, for sustainability, for an equitable distribution of resources — are not served by the practice of vegetarianism. Believing in this vegetarian myth has led us astray....

[T.B. Yoits]

Christ multiplied the loaves and fishes to feed to the crowd. He didn't multiply the loaves and tofu.

[Reily]

The fact that humans have canines (bicuspids) says eat meat !