What you're all forgetting is that *I* wouldn't eat butter if you paid me to do it. Or any other animal product. So for 34 years, it's been about finding *delicious* foods, not to exactly replicate the 'real' version, but to be good on its own merits. And I've been very successful, as any omnivore who's ever eaten a meal I've cooked will attest! I actually have a problem with the new-fangled realistic 'meat analogs (or substitutes)'--like Impossible and Beyond--because their resemblance to real dead sentient beings makes me sick. But I understand why they're making these products--and they've been wildly successful. The last stats I read on their sales showed that 70% of their customers are omnivores--not vegans/vegetarians as you'd expect.
For me, I prefer meat alternatives, dairy alternatives, etc. Like the Silk soy (or almond) milk 'yogurt' I eat every day, or the Gardein 'meatless meat' products that I adore, like their 'nuggets' which I eat with sweet and sour sauce. They're delicious on their own merits, and whenever I'm coaching a new vegetarian/vegan, I tell them NOT to compare these products to what they're used to, i.e., don't expect veggie burgers to look/taste EXACTLY like real burgers, just enjoy them for their own taste.
As for the toilet paper analogy, you've got it all wrong
@puppykickr! If toilet paper was made by abusing/torturing animals and then inhumanely slaughtering them, I wouldn't use it. I'd find an alternative. Not a cheap, awful version that doesn't work as I expect. Because the point for people like me is to NOT ABUSE sentient beings. If I had to eat dirt, if that was my only choice, I'd do that over torture and kill animals.
