Consuming fake meat keeps the habit of eating meat (and other animal produce and non-foods) alive and normative. The overconsumption and the fixation on meat is definitely problematic for any principled person.
MOSHE-MORDECHAI VAN ZUIDEN: ‘The new meat that is now being readied to be available in another two years doesn’t make me jump up and down from happiness… There are pros and cons with this new meat and some serious problems for Jewish Law too… Indeed, every animal less bred means very much less damage to the planet (less (rain)forest or farmland taken away for pasturing, fewer greenhouse winds), less waste and less animal suffering…
However, consuming fake meat keeps the habit of eating meat (and other animal produce and non-foods) alive (pun intended) and normative. Even if eating meat would not be a problem at all for some people, the overconsumption and the fixation on meat (56 billion animals are presently globally slaughtered for food every year) is definitely problematic for any principled person. Rather than reducing this idiocy by a trifle, fake meat will legitimize it…
Also, the argument that fake meat could be healthier meat because the amount of fat could be reduced is like saying that less-refined sugar is better than refined sugar. The difference is negligible. Alcoholics suffer most (in the first decades) from not having bread vitamins in their diet. The idea of adding those to strong drinks was rejected by the specialists because soon people would claim that drinking alcohol was actually advantageous and healthy because of having vitamins in them. Here same thing’. SOURCE…
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