If vegetarians are so against meat why do they make everything taste like meat?

[majnun99]

"Everything?" I'm not sure what the "social benefit" would be.

I don't mean to be rude, but this question gets asked so often here it's getting old.

1. Some vegetarians miss certain foods they grew up with and want to have meatless versions of them.

2. Sometimes vegetarians want to eat something like looks like what everybody else is eating so they don't stand out from the crowd quite as much.

3. Sometimes people have to give up meat for health reasons and maybe they don't really want to. Fake meat makes this a little easier.

4. Some people may not have any health problem in particular, and don't really want to go vegetarian, but they think it's a good idea to cut down on meat at least some of the time or they just eat the fake meats because they like them. I know a lot of people at work who do this.

5. They don't really taste like meat. I have accidentally tasted meat a few times since I became vegetarian and I thought it tasted horrible.

This just seems like a silly thing to be concerned about. What if I said "why do meat eaters eat something called hot dogs but they think it's horrible to eat dog meat?" It would make about as much sense as far as I'm concerned.