By L.D. Cross, Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2019
For those whose meatless Mondays have become fleshless forevers, deliverance is at hand. The veggie burger is here. Recent commercials by A&W tout the company’s Beyond Meat Burger and its Beyond Meat Sausage and Egger breakfast sandwich. Actors wax ecstatic over the product, exclaiming it “tastes exactly like meat.”
That meat memory is a big positive, apparently. So why not eat the real thing? Forget the foodie flim-flam.
If you believe eating meat is cruel, stresses the environment or contributes to chronic ailments, then why sculpt faux burgers, ribs, roasts and steaks out of veggies and grains to imitate the very animal flesh you profess to abhor? Seems counterintuitive to me.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/cross-vegans-please-leave-your-meat-obsession-at-the-door