A question I received: If you think that mock meats are problematic, what are your feelings about soy ice cream? My reply: As I have said many times, I am not saying that there is anything inherently immoral about consuming any of these foods. What I have said is that mock animal foods perpetuate the idea that animal flesh and animal products *are* food. We need to move away from that thinking. I have stated that all foods that seek to imitate the taste and texture of animal foods are problematic in this regard, particularly when they are marketed with animal-food names. Let me say again--because many animal people appear either to not understand what I say or to misrepresent it intentionally--I am *not* saying that there is anything inherently immoral about consuming any of these foods. I am raising a question about perpetuating a speciesist paradigm.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:20:38 +0000
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