FoodPorn

Stop trying to mimic meat products, it's a losing battle and will always be inferior. Stop trying to fit foods into a meat "alternative" product that just sucks in comparison to the original, but you try to justify as being "almost the same", it's never even close. It's easily the main reason so many people won't even consider vegan options, they're constantly being lied to and resent that.

Embrace the ingredients and use them in ways that actually make sense. You don't need to replace meat products for people to try an alternative diet, you just need to have other good options. Many vegan restaurants have absolutely delicious and filling food, it's never the options that try to replace a burger though. It's the foods designed from the ground up to be vegan and embracing what the ingredients actually are.

Edit: What a surprise, down voted by the vegan brigade refusing to accept any sort of criticism that their replacements usually suck. Coming to defend poor imitations instead of just acknowledging that some foods don't need to be replaced, and that attempting to do so just steers people away from alternatives entirely.

I never said that alternatives weren't good. In fact I said the exact opposite. That the alternatives need to be treated as their own thing, not a replacement for a meat product. But the knee jerk reaction to downvote anything perceives as anti-vegan is just too strong apparently. And you all wonder why people make fun of the vegan culture. It's almost as bad as Linux fanboys or League of Legends players.