What the fuck is the ‘authentic experience’ of a chicken nugget that seitan is incapable of replicating, anyways? Also the burger patties I ate in school as a cringe baby carnist were 60% TVP soy to begin with, so if anything I’m being even more honest with my frozen slabs now
I’m talking to you and your defense of this original comment:
This is obviously a moral claim. They’re not saying imitation baby would be gross because baby flesh tastes gross. I’m sure it doesn’t; veal is eaten across the world. They’re saying it’d be gross because you’re not supposed to eat babies. Similar arguments are made against BDSM play that simulates harming others. To defend it, you wrote:
The obvious answer is it tastes good; these are the foodways we were brought up with.
If the taste of meat has no moral weight, why bring up your “visceral disgust” for it? Why would /u/worldonaturtle compare it to baby flesh? If it has no moral weight, then who cares? I don’t like lion’s mane mushrooms, if somebody was promoting a lion’s mane sub to reduce lion’s mane farming deforestation* I simply wouldn’t have anything to say. Good on them, wasn’t my problem to begin with. Nobody gives a shit whether I happen to like the mushrooms, especially those people who are working on a substitute, and going on about how I think it’s viscerally disgusting would be needlessly antagonizing.
*I assume this is not a real problem
Actually a funnier example is music. Meat is Murder was a good album but Morrissey sucks and they’re making a lab grown Morrissey. You think Morrissey sucks but you only listen to folk punk anyway? Well fuck off lol, who cares