Repeat after me, no one eats a burger believing it's a health food.
Now write it a hundred times and maybe we can stop this circular discussion.
Now write it a hundred times and maybe we can stop this circular discussion.
Getting adequate nutrition as a vegetarian isn’t difficult at all. Pick a random grain, a random legume, and a random vegetable, maybe throw in a salad, and you’ll average out to everything you need nutritionally.
It’s only a problem when you try to transform vegetables into non-vegetables. There’s nothing natural about eating massive amounts of a single part of any fruit or vegetable.
The same logic applies to explain why most juice is bad for you. It’s simply not evolutionarily sound to consume just the liquid portion of an entire bag of oranges or apples.
It applies to meat as well. A diet of only pork rinds isn’t going to work too well.
Associating a particular food with health or illness is an incorrect thing to do, at least I think so.
I do not think so. I eat meat, but does not go for burgers in general. I have yet to encounter social situation in which me not eating burger would in any way be an issue. It just does not happen, never. Being vegetarian poses social issues I think, but you never need a burger specifically.
It is more that people including vegetarians (excluding me I guess) like burger form and like the bun taste.
What are you talking about? Are you just going to say this without any citation whatsoever? What do you mean by 'healthy'?
There are plenty of fine vegetarian options too of course. Although some people will struggle with anemia and protein deficiency.
It's really not, though. Not any harder than in a meat eating diet. Maybe if you're following a vegan diet. Or if you have specific health concerns (like low iron absorption). But then, you should probably have to be careful if you're eating meat, as well.
The buns and perhaps sugary sauces are the least healthy bits.
Orange juice is also high in vitamin C and makes that claim so low information consumers think it's ok to have their children drink litres of the stuff since it's "healthier than soda". The problem you're highlighting has far more to do with the negative aspects of a capitalist food system (marketing and branding) and is far broader than whether these particular patties that are primarily selected on the basis their contents didn't die in terror surrounded by the stench of death with a boltgun through the skull have insufficient zinc or whatever.
Like sure proper labelling and branding is important, for all foods, but I'm reacting to the perceived broader campaign on behalf of the meat industry to single out meat replacements on the basis of them not being, I don't know, as healthy as a prime cut of wagyu beef prepared in the healthiest oil with a side salad of greens (no dressing).