Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.vg to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month agoThese vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it.www.nationalobserver.comexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down116
arrow-up194arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square109linkfedilink
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·1 month 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-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoMeat also refers to the edible nut part. Like the meat of a wallnut is inside the shell
minus-squareNooch@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month 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-squaresexy_peach@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month 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.
Meat also refers to the edible nut part. Like the meat of a wallnut is inside the shell
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.
No, vegan meat exists, because I use it in that way.