Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 28 days agoThese vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it.www.nationalobserver.comexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThese vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it.www.nationalobserver.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoI’m going to be pedantic here, because it’s sometimes my favourite thing to be. But “Vegan Meat” is an oxymoron. Meat is specifically defined as the flesh or edible parts of animals. These aren’t Vegan Meat brands, they’re Meat Substitute brands.
minus-squareNooch@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meat Meat is only specifically animals when in that context. Example: “let’s get to the meat of the issue” is not referring to animal flesh, but the details of an issue. Not even food related.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoMeat also refers to the edible nut part. Like the meat of a wallnut is inside the shell
minus-squaresexy_peach@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoNo, vegan meat exists, because I use it in that way.
I’m going to be pedantic here, because it’s sometimes my favourite thing to be. But “Vegan Meat” is an oxymoron.
Meat is specifically defined as the flesh or edible parts of animals.
These aren’t Vegan Meat brands, they’re Meat Substitute brands.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meat
Meat is only specifically animals when in that context. Example: “let’s get to the meat of the issue” is not referring to animal flesh, but the details of an issue. Not even food related.
Meat also refers to the edible nut part. Like the meat of a wallnut is inside the shell
No, vegan meat exists, because I use it in that way.