I look at mock meats the way I look at mock fur: sure, you aren't wearing real fur, but you're giving the allusion that you are. So, case in point, while you aren't harming animals, you still kind of want the taste of meat, right? When you wear a faux fur coat, you still want people to think you're wearing animal fur. When you get closer, though, you can usually tell it isn't real fur. It may be the color, but it's usually the feel; faux fur isn't as soft as real fur (By the way, I'm 100% against fur. I'm not saying real fur is supposed to be anywhere but on the body of it's natural owner, the animal it belongs to). Well, I find faux meats to be the same in most cases. Not only do they not taste like real meat, which can be good or bad depending on whether you like the taste of animal or not, but the ingredients are usually very long and hard to pronounce.
Reasons I avoid mock meats:
1. It gives the allusion that eating meat is okay, and to me it simply isn't
2. It is usually composed of a lot of frankenfood type ingredients, no matter how natural it claims to be
3. If you're a vegan, some contain milk and egg ingredients hidden towards the end of the ingredients list
4. I love to cook, and I'd rather cook something myself
5. Clean eating does not only mean no synthetic ingredients, but a lot of whole and unprocessed foods. With that being said, mock meat isn't whole and usually very, very processed
I'm not saying I NEVER eat them. I do have them on rare occasions where I literally have nothing else to eat. In addition, if someone were to ask me whether they should eat real meat or faux meat, I would say faux meat in a heartbeat, simply because at least you're not doing animals harm. In the end, though, if you want to follow a clean, healthy lifestyle, mock meats should probably not be a big part of it
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