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Why do meat substitutes exist?

Posted by godstar, October 3, 2007

I'm omnivorous, but have many "restricted diet" friends. None of them ever consume fake meat (and there is plenty available in the UK - from Quorn, through Linda McCartneys dubious nursery food substitutes to good old TVP pellets) since they acquire bountiful nutrition from a varied vegetable diet. So who eats this stuff? And why? Surely, if you choose not to eat meat, an industrially manufactured simulation is a perverse alternative? Or am I missing the point?

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