Charlie Gill
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Agricultural Matters scares me so I'll ask it here...
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Charlie Gill
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If you want veg wrapped in pastry, why not have veg wrapped in pastry? Samosa? Why try to mimic a pork pie?
Old Boar
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By law, sausages must be 30 per cent meat. Pork sausages must be 42 per cent meat. So dont call them sausages. Call them veg tubes.
Ingredients: Rehydrated textured soya protein, water, soya protein concentrate, palm oil, seasoning (sulphites, dextrose, salt, flavourings, onion powder, yeast extract, colour, red iron oxide) , rapeseed oil, rusk (fortified wheat flour, wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, raising agent, ammonium bicarbonate, stabilizer: methyl cellulose, tomato puree, salt.
Charlie Gill
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How much energy would you use cooking something like that compared to steaming some pure veg?
Similar ? It would be the energy consumed in hauling the ingredients from the four corners of the globe I would be more concerned about.
Charlie Gill
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But they are trying to replace the meat element, I didn't think we had a problem with that?
sorry you've lost me.
Charlie Gill
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Why not use pork rather than all the ingredients you listed?
Because they are catering, as it were, for folks who don't want to eat pork.
Charlie Gill
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That's not how I interpreted it, they are on there way to Glasgow, and COP 26 is mentioned. I'm not convinced it's a 'balanced diet' promo.
Edit: or a veggie advert.
Charlie Gill
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lost me again
I might be able to explain myself better in the morning It seems to me that making these pork pies taste like pork pies to save the environment is actually using more resources, and ingredients, than actually making a pork pie. If you think veg only is a better alternative for your health and that is your thing, then just steam a few vegetables.
I was always told it's actually the pastry that's not that great for you anyway?
I'm probably out of my league, hence staying out of Agricultural Matters, thanks for engaging anyway.
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What’s wrong with a lettuce sandwich?
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If you don’t want to eat meat then that is a personal choice, just eat vegetables, why make them look like something that you choose not to eat in the first place? I suppose it could be down to a lack of meat protein reducing brain power resulting in the warped thinking than many vegans have.
It seems to me that making these pork pies taste like pork pies to save the environment is actually using more resources, and ingredients, than actually making a pork pie. If you think veg only is a better alternative for your health and that is your thing, then just steam a few vegetables.
I was always told it's actually the pastry that's not that great for you anyway?
I'm probably out of my league, hence staying out of Agricultural Matters, thanks for engaging anyway.
M-J-G
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No that's a Vegi-dong you're thinking of
Mr Mackay
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Isn't that an impossibility?
Mr Mackay
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It's a mind trick surely? You are quite right in what you say
It seems to me that making these pork pies taste like pork pies to save the environment is actually using more resources, and ingredients, than actually making a pork pie. If you think veg only is a better alternative for your health and that is your thing, then just steam a few vegetables.
I was always told it's actually the pastry that's not that great for you anyway?
I'm probably out of my league, hence staying out of Agricultural Matters, thanks for engaging anyway.
I guess there's a couple of things going on:
- Putting all those ingredients in a 'pork pie' is a way of telling/kidding folks that they are getting everything they need for a balanced diet, in a convenient way.
- More sinister, it's part of a calculated campaign to hyjack words like 'meat' and 'pork pie', with the end game being that the consumer ends up disassociating animal agriculture with those words.