What do you think about a Vegetarian Magazine using Photoshopped meat photos?

Wrong wrong and wrong. VegNews is a bunch of liars and cheats. I wouldn't buy their magazine any more (not that I ever bought it in the past not because of this just because I don't really have time for magazines like that) and I won't support them. Their apology read more like something from BP or Exxon or some company like that not one that had an integrity. Basically they said "we didn't really do anything wrong because we didn't not say the photos were animal ingredients. We are really great and you should really buy more magazines because we are really going to try extra hard to limit this from happening too often. However if it does understand it is just what we have to do."

They give away their magazines for free all the time at conferences and festivals, I remember one conference last year there was box after box after box after box of their magazines that nobody wanted, they got taken and given away but still.

They have the money to pay for a photographer. However they didn't even try to find a vegan photographer. VegNews could have put out an ad in their magazine asking for a vegan photographer and they would have gotten at least 100 responses from people who have fancy high end cameras who can snap a shot and probably most of them would do it on the cheap or for a magazine subscription or a free dinner.

Their magazine comes out only six times a year and for a for-profit company that isn't that much and it wouldn't be that hard to find someone too take a few photos. It is not like they have daily deadlines like a newspaper or even weekly deadlines just every 2 months. I have seen plenty of vegan blogs that take very nice photos that you could easily include in a magazine. Vegan Dad takes his own photos and he has freakin kids and is not making money from his blog aside from some sales of his cookbook.

Playboy or Hustler has more integrity than VegNews and that is really sad.

'Meat substitutes' exist in our culture because the habits of eating are based around meat' Many traditional meals and recipes are centred on meat and without something to take its place people would find it very hard to eat foods that they are familiar with. In other cultures where meat is scarce, unaffodable or avoided for religious reasons you can find vegetarians that do not buy meat 'substitutes'. Culture has a lot to do with it- for example in Asia, where people eat a lot more fish, vegetarians can buy many more 'fish substitutes'. I would disagree that 'it feels right for a reason' because it does not feel right to many people, they just say that they don't like the taste or texture. Vegetarians do not avoid meat simply because of how it tastes, they might love the taste of meat they ate when they were growing up and miss those familiar flavours and textures. They don't eat meat because of other issues - that is why people say they 'gave up meat' because although they may have enjoyed eating it they decided it was not the right thing to do when they realised how the animals and the environment are affected by the meat industries. In any case, I have never met anyone who like the taste of freshly slaughtered bloody meat. Most people like meat that has been cooked, seasoned and often processed into burgers and sausages, etc. So even those products can be seen as 'un-natural' in a way :-) Anyway - what tastes good for you cannot be assumed to apply to everyone. Lots of people say tomatoes, peaches, apricots and mangoes taste good - I cannot stand them!

This is so last week.

I think most people have stopped caring by now. And most people have stopped supporting (if they were before.) I have never even seen their magazine in the store and only heard about them a couple months ago. What do I personally think? They ****** up, or for more pc peeps, "They dun goofed".

Also, vegan food is not fake food. Fake food would be plastic displays and toys.

Many pro vegetarian websites offer false and deliberately fake information in order to deceive it's visitors. The magazine is merely keeping with tradition.

VegNews wants to appeal to the sophisticated, wealthy crowd so they don't want to use the real photos. Vegan food looks like what it is...fake food. So they use photos of meat to try and fool people.