why don't veg*s call their food what it is?

Because they want to make money off the idiots who don't understand that eating vegetarian diet means eating vegetables, not packaged food that tastes like animal produce.

'They say'... Who says, Daisy? You've met all veg*s (sic)?

And why not? Cream, iced, is still ice cream whether the cream is dairy or soya. And no, the word 'cream' doesn't refer solely to dairy produce.

Nobody is trying to fool anybody. But do I ask in a shop for 'vegan cheese', or do I say ' a product usually, but not in every case, made chiefly from soya and intended to simulate the dairy product known as cheese'? I know which the hard-working shop assistant would prefer.

And burger? A burger is a patty, a shape, a form. You've never seen a flat, round animal. What you refer to as a 'burger' is a product made partly of meat (with added soya and other fillers) that has been spiced and flavoured before being shaped until it no more resembles the cow or pig it came from (in taste or appearance) than it resembles a head of broccoli. This is different from a soya-based burger how, exactly?

No fewer chemicals, no less processing than the soya equivalent.

Come on dear, you're clutching at straws here.

If you knew anything about veganism - and quite clearly you don't - you'd realize that the vast majority of vegans DON'T eat any of that processed meat substitute stuff. Veganism is about optimum health (as well as ethics, of course), and that means vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, nuts and seeds in their unprocessed and most natural form. I suggest you do a little research before you make yourself look like such a fool with your ridiculous ill-informed assumptions. Also people like you (but you in particular - I've seen you in these forums far too often and wonder if you have a life that extends beyond the computer screen in your parent's basement) coming into these forums with your pathetic and impotent little attacks on vegans are only demonstrating to everyone how truly insecure you are about the fact that you eat meat. If you really thought meat eating was OK, you'd just get on with your life and do what you do. You wouldn't feel the need to go to such great effort to prove us "wrong" (which you can't). We all feel good about the choices we've made. Perhaps if you felt good about your choices you wouldn't feel the need to harass us.

You having a bad day?

Lets thinks about this.

I go to a restaurant.

Do I say "Can I have the veggie burger" or "Can I have the soy bean patty on bread?"

When you go to the market do you buy bacon or brine soaked, smoked, cured pork belly?

I am in MA if you are local I can meet you for a hug.

It's because their diet is nothing more than an agenda-driven politically correct feel good because I think I'm making a freaking difference and I'm morally and ethically superior than everyone else diet based on nothing more than ideology rather than a traditional diet yet they know the vast majority of people in society believe they are a tiny crack pot lunatic fringe element so in some weird way they pick these fake meats et al to appear to be somewhat normal to others around them.

Vegans especially. Gotta love how they call their diets 'natural' even though not only would their diet been fatal nearly 100 years ago due to lack of worldwide food distribution we have today to ship all those fruits and veggies across the globe from exotic places on those massively polluting fossil fuel guzzling cargo vessels spreading invasive species everywhere and their dependence on completely unnatural mass produced artificial suppliments made by greedy evil corporations there is no recorded evidence anywhere of any society or culture in the past ever living off a diet like that. LOL. They are so earth friendly they don't even give a thought about the 1000s of poor defenseless animals per acre that are slaughtered just to plant organic crops to sustain them.

Like I said, vegan diets aren't about healthy nuitrition. That, especially the fruitarian diet cult, would have certainly been fatal is tried for a serious length of time just 100 years ago.

Language is a fluid thing Daisy, it is always changing.

But here are some euphemistically named animal products:

Bacon

Fois gras

Veal

Sweetbreads

Lambs fry

Black pudding

Chicken nuggets

Giblets

Caviar

Uh, because it's easier to say "I'm making chicken" than "I'm making some vegan soy-based fake chicken." Besides, that just sounds stupid. If someone knows me, then they can safely assume that everything I'm talking about is obviously VEGAN. Nobody is trying to fool anyone here.

Way to pick on people, though..

Plants ARE "normal food".

:)

I don't eat faux animal products, so have no idea why this question is addressed to "vegans", as opposed to people who consume such products (the majority of whom are health-conscious omnivores).

As far as that goes, though, I really don't care what paranoid and insecure animal-product lovers think about calling such foods by names THEY think exclusively apply to animal products...although the idea of someone with that little to worry about is kind of amusing.

I'd rather eat a "chemical mismach" than a dead animal -_-

Because it's easier and faster to say.

I call my food what ever it is.

I do refer to meat as DEAD ANIMALS when ever some bugs me about what I eat.