Vegetarian Chicken Pieces

Jillyjosie

I can't resist saying that if we were still part of the EU, there would be legislation to cover this!!

As a lifelong vegetarian, this has been going on for years and it's now worse in pursuit of profits. It's just attempting to attract meat eaters who might want to flirt with being veggie. So much processed food these days and it's a free market after all, what our current masters are keen on! I feel quite savage with the irony!

I do eat meat, Jillyjosie but those adverts on TV for The Vegetarian Butcher incense me!!

If I decide not to eat meat I will not want food prepared by someone who pretends to be something they are not.

Fair comment Elizabeth27.

Alegrias1 You don’t have to sell your soul, just have it if you want to.

A bacon sandwich was my downfall years ago when I was veggie.
Now I eat a substitute instead, if the urge takes me.

I've been veggie for 30 years and have only eaten the "pretend meat" stuff at my MILs because she couldn't conceive of a meal without meat.

But hey, everyone needs to eat what they want. Its a free country.

I'd sell my soul for a real bacon sandwich...or a Scotch pie from the chipper

Me too.
I guess you have to the the right type of vegetarian these days.

Would rather just eat vegetables and local meat from butcher, than factory or laboratory grown rubbish, full of salt and other nasties. Cannot understand why people who hate eating meat, want something to taste like it.

I love Quorn which I suppose you would class as false meat not sure how they could process it unless it looked like
something ???
I don’t have any problem with cheese and onion burgers can’t see why that’s considered fake meat a burger is fake anyway same as sausages with a small amoun5 of meat and lots of padding about as fake as you can get !!
Why not substitute the small amount of pork or beef plus plus plus all the fillings stuff with quorn or something similar
I don’t get all the anti around it. It all sounds a bit snobby to me.

Some of those chicken products such as nuggets or pieces are reconstituted meat all bashed into shape in a factory, produced by electrocuting chickens who are only weeks old, raised in semi darkness squashed together with no room to move, crippled or having their wings cut to make room for more birds. I don’t like fake meat but would rather have it than the real thing.

I don't think these things are artificial meat, I think they are soya based.

So textured soya protein masquerading as chicken. Whatever floats your boat, I suppose. This vegetarian wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

We have meat-free meals quite often but I never use substitute meat. I once tried Linda Macartney sausages and subsequently spent the evening in the loo. ? I can’t tolerate soya, either, so that rules out lots of things.

Both my dil’s are vegetarian but they never eat substitutes, either, yet they still have lovely meals.

Each to their own, though!

Because they don't want to.

Personally we often have meat free meals but never artificial meat. Why can't those who don't wish to eat meat settle for natural foods such as fruit, veg. cereals etc.?

On the flip side my DH is vegetarian on moral grounds - he like meat and likes animals and the animals win. These meat substitutes work very well for him - as with anything as part of a balanced diet but they are not all junk food some are a good source of protein - and EU labelling wouldn't have amde any difference....

Richmond veggie sausages are very nice.
It means I can cook a dinner for both of us easily, too.

Beans on toast is more nutritious than fake chicken, just as quick and cheaper too?

Oh, I can’t bear something that pretends to look and taste like meat! I want to eat less meat, but I don’t want substitute meat, I want tasty non meat alternatives that look nothing like meat!

It depends what’s in the veggie version , chicken pieces aren’t generally the healthy option , padded out with junk , if the veggie ones were really the healthier option I wouldn’t mind , but I’m sure they aren’t

Me too.

I think any alternative to battery chicken is a step in the right direction.

I think they can be handy for families, children, people who don't cook from scratch, or who want to just try out a veggie option.
It's good that alternatives to meat are easily accessible to people now.

I agree- although I never see the point of “imitation” meat anyway. But better plant-based substitute than battery chicken. Let’s hope the bottom drops out of the market for cheap “plastic” chicken.
Why not enjoy veggies in the myriad ways they can be enjoyed for themselves? (Note to self, cauliflower cheese tonight)

I would think that someone would have to be pretty stupid not to understand that ‘vegetarian chicken pieces’ aren’t made from meat.

I would not say yuk about plant-based food but would about a chicken factory.

They would not be displayed next to meat in a supermarket so do not think there would be confusion.

It’s nice to hear that from a vegetarian *Jillyjosie”.

I’m not a vegetarian, I do eat meat but my preference is for non-meat based meals.

But not this awful processed muck. I readily confess that I’ve never understood why people want something that looks like fake
The processed stuff is neither healthy nor good for the planet and doesn’t even cover just finding meat distasteful.

You’re right, just pursuit of profit and “flirting”. The illusion of virtue?