Dave Smith wrote:
>
> My nephew and his wife are vegetarians and are always pushing their
> stryroburgers and plastic wieners saying that they taste just like meat.
> Then eat meat. I don't have a problem with good vegetarian food. There
> are lots of Indian dishes using lentils and other high protein
> vegetables with spicy flavour. I do have a problem with avoiding meat
> for some sort of political reason and then looking for manufactured
> products that are made to look and taste like meat.

It's a tacit admission that meat tastes better. Too bad they're not
foodies like us folks who have had vegitarian meals so good they amaze.

I'm happy to support folks who go vegitarian for religious, moral or
political reasons. Service to a higher cause, good on them for it.
What I'm not happy to support is folks who claim that going vegitarian
is more healthy and that's why they decided to do it. And it seems
like those are the folks who eat bota burgers and such. Going
vegitarian is not healthier. It's healthier than eating nothing but
MacDonalds maybe, but not healthier than eating real food.

Humans are omnivores. We can be healthy on a well planned all meat
diet or on a well planned vegan diet. Can as in possible to do but I
have little interest in eating seal eyeballs to complete an all meat
diet or fresh and smelly pond scum to complete the B12 in a vegan
diet. But as omnivores it is easy to be healthy on a plan that
contains sizable fractions of meat and veggies plus an assortment of
non-core foods. That's right, real food.

Veggie burger. I like those. On the plate is today's assorted steamed
veggies and a burger. There ya go.